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Chapter One In the book Comeback of the Home Run Kid, by Matt Christopher, Sylvester Coddmyer spained his ankle playing baseball with his friend Duane. After Duane hit a fly ball, Sylvester was running back to catch it when he tripped over the grass. Then he remembered from another team never give up on a ball. A mysterious man apears and tells Sylvester that it's only spained.

Chapter Two In chapter two Syl meets two men, one named George Baruth nad a man who goes by the name Cheeko. Mr. Baruth helps Syl with his game while Cheeko helps him cheet. Mr. baruth look exactly like one of the most famos sluggers inthe history of the game, Babe Ruth while Cheeko looks very similer to a 1919 World Series pitcher, Eddie Cicotte. Cicotte threw the World Series out the window to some gambblers for some money. So Syl tells him off and he goes back to the way it was before Cheeko. Good summary, Jason! Make sure you proof-read your paragraph before posting to fix typos! Keep Reading!!

Chapter Three In chapter three Syl goes to the docter and finds out that his ankle is not broken, so he has to stay off it for only a week. In the mean time, Syl and Duane were playing chess and duane won five times in a row. They got a call for this years rosters. Both of them were on The Hooper Hawks. Tomarrow is the day Syl can do stuff again, so they decide to go to the field and practice a little to get Syl's ankle warned up for the practice in two days.

Chapter Four In chapter four Syl and Duane meet up at the field for some practice. The practice will be a short one because Duane has to go to the dentist's office for his appointment. The two boys start off by playing catch for ten minutes. Then, Daune lets syl bat while he pitches to him. But on the first swing he misses and his ankle starts to throb. So, they dicide to go home and ice it.

Chapter Five In chapter five the man in a Yankees hat comes back. He says hi to Syl and heads back to the baseball dimond. Then, Syl's friend Snooky Malone comes along. Snooky is a very astonimal kind of person. He tells Syl that he was in the newspaper andwalks away.

Chapter six In chapter six Syl goes back to the dimond and finds the man with a Yankees hat on and decides to let him help him. He says that he needs to change his stance in the batters box. Then, he disappears. His friend Charlie walks up to him. Syl askes him for help. He sugests that he becomes a switch hiter so he tries it and he likes it.

Chapter Seven In chapter seven Charlie takes to the plate. He starts out batting righty and then switches to lefty. Then, it's Syl's turn to bat. Charlie tells him to bat lefty. At first he dosen't agree, but then, he changes his mind. Charlie and Syl worked together for the rest of the day and Syl's ankle didn't bother him.

Chapter Eight Syl is a litle worried about if he can learn to bat lefty by the time the season has started. Just then, Duke Farrel showed up. (Sly had hit a three run shot last time he faced him.) Duke was bringing back all the memories from Cheeko and they were all true.Duke was not very happy with any of these.

Chapter Nine Then came Duane to the rescue, he threw a ball at Duke's back "accedentaly". Duke said a few words and then grabed his stuff, angrly, and walk home. He helped Syl pick up the balls Duke had knocked over and started to talk. But then they got hungry, so they went back to Syl's house and ate.

Chapter Ten Today was the day of the Hawks fisrt practice. He saw Duane and hurried over toward him. They started to warm up and when that was over, they started a scimmage. Syl wasn't to happy that he was not on Duane's team. The first inning went pretty slow and Syl never got to bat that inning.

Chapter Eleven The next inning he did though. When he took a swing, his ankle started to hurt. He then remembered that he didn't put on his brace. After practice was over he started toward the parking lot and then he saw Charlie. He sugested that they go practice after dinner. Syl wanted to but, his coach had called to tell him to ice his ankle. So he called Charlie and to ld him the bad news.

Chapter Twelve The next day him and his dad went to the batting cages for a little father son time. At the cages, Syl payed the man, took a slower cage, and took a lefty stance.