The Road to the Majors: Touchdown Edition

GREAT!!! Road To The Majors is an amazing book about a boy with a dream. It is about a boy named Jimmy Hanks, he is from California, he surfs like a lot of the people from his town but he wants to play soccer, until someone changes his life. Nick Erickson was one of Jimmy friends in high school. One day Nick was at Jimmy's house and convinced him that baseball was his sport. Jimmy always liked baseball but never wanted to be in the MLB (Major League Baseball). From then it is a great book about his struggles to make it to the MLB. If you read this book I would love to hear if you liked it or not. I hope you find my review helpful and if you like baseball this is the book for you.

This is a terrific book for any early teen baseball fan. Something that I thought was really interesting about this story is that the robbery portion of it is completely based off of an event that occurred to Houston Astros third basemen, Morgan Ensberg. There was a story done on ESPN in which he explained the entire event.

In this book The Road to the Majors, Jimmyis trying to make the baseball team. When he was younger,he always liked the bag of the double AA baseball team, the Lonestars. He thought the bags were neat and always wanted one, so he decided to try out for the Lonestars with his friend Nick Erickson. He wotked out in the summer and tried to get good enough to make triple AAA baseball that's one step under the majors. At tryouts, he either could get sent down to a league or he could get to play in double AA baseball. That's were Jimmy Hanks was playing. As Jimmy was trying to get better and better, he was learning the tricks or trades of being a baseball player. He went to tryouts with a high level of confidence, meaning he was full of hope and prayers to make the team. That talent meant he made the Amarillo Dusters, the triple AAA team. So he went out there and showed what he had. They were playing catch when the coach said "Jimmy Hanks"(here comes the moment of truth) "hey Jimmy, come in and set down please. We want to congradulate you on making the triple AAA Amarillo Dusters.

Great storyline about a young man chasing his passion of baseball and remembering just how it became his passion in the first place. Brought back some memories of my own childhood and how I dreamed of a Major League career. A good book for children in search of heroes and good read for us older "children" who can still remember what it was like to chase a dream.Does anyone know where I can find more from these two authors or who these guys are?