Books with author Jackson Scholtz

When an unknown player named Ken Holt appears one morning to try out for the major-league Terriers, the other players scoff. Who does this guy think he is, anyway? Holt silences their jeers with his incredible skills and makes the team. But he's got a secret that, if revealed, could send him back to oblivion. "Plenty of baseball action and humor make this a top-notch story."--Booklist.

When Jeff Craig started his first year at the U.S. Naval Academy, he thought he was going to hate it and resolved not to let the Navy shape him into its mold. But the thing that really worried him was whether he would get a chance to play football on the Navy's first eleven. Things didn't look so good when he saw Ted Carson, the captain of the football team. Beacuse back at Penn, Jeff had started a fight with Ted Carson after their two teams had played. And that wasn't the end of it, as their fierce grudge fight in the Academy gym was to show... "The son of a Navy man starts out from what he calls the 'Snob Angle.' Determined to hate Annapolis, he eventually gets proper pride in his academy and wins the game for dear old Navy. ...the Annapolis background is interesting and accurate." -- Kirkus