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Of all the players in the little league, Harold was the littlest.No matter how hard he tries, Harold is no good at baseball. The ground balls always bounce over his head, and his little legs never get him to the pop flies fast enough. So the only place Coach Lombardi puts him is on the bench. Until one day, during a very important game, Harold gets his big chance to show that being little isn't so bad after all.

Of all the players in the little league, Harold was the littlest.No matter how hard he tries, Harold is no good at baseball. The ground balls always bounce over his head, and his little legs never get him to the pop flies fast enough. So the only place Coach Lombardi puts him is on the bench. Until one day, during a very important game, Harold gets his big chance to show that being little isn't so bad after all.

Of all the players in the little league, Harold was the littlest.No matter how hard he tries, Harold is no good at baseball. The ground balls always bounce over his head, and his little legs never get him to the pop flies fast enough. So the only place Coach Lombardi puts him is on the bench. Until one day, during a very important game, Harold gets his big chance to show that being little isn't so bad after all.

THE LITTLEST LEAGUER Vintage Scholastic Beginning Reader BOOK Story And Pictures By Syd Hoff former cartoonist for the New Yorker magazine This is a story about boy named Harold who was the shortest player on his Little League team Other kids advised him to quit the season and sign up in the following year again. He tried for different positions but even the coach told him there is no spot for him on the team and he will have to sit on the bench When the game was rained out Harold would stay on the field in the rain hoping the water would make him grow like the flowers, but he only got wet His team played the last game of the season championship and the score was nothing to nothing. The best player on his team twisted his ankle and there was only Harold who could bat. He got two strikes but at than he hit a home run and his team won the championship, everybody cheered for him ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Paperback edition, published in 1976 by Scholastic Book dimensions: 5.5 x 7.5 x 0.2 inches 44 pages ISBN 0-590-05385-X This is an awesome book, your eager reader will want to read it over and over again