Book Analysis: Heat By Mike Lupica

If you love sports fiction books, especially Mike Lupica’s, you will love this one. The book I chose to write a book talk on this quarter is called The Batboy. In the book, Brian, a fourteen year old child, gets the opportunity that he has always wanted. Brian is hired to become the batboy for his favorite baseball team, the Detroit Tigers. Although Brian’s dad was in the major leagues at one point, he left Brian and his mother when Brian was eight. However, Brian got over that when he was young and the situation was not a big deal anymore. When Brian thought things could not get better, he found out that the Tigers signed his favorite player Hank Bishop with Bishop coming off of his fifty game suspension because of steroid use. While reading

The novel that I read over winter break was The DH, by John Feinstein, who is known for his books regarding sports mysteries. The DH, falls under that genre of realistic fiction, along with other books by Feinstein. The novel is one of three books in the series and is the last one. Alex Myers the main character, is an all-star athlete in football, basketball, and baseball, living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attending Chester Heights High. Alex has needed to take care of himself, and his sister Molly, because their dad has been MIA ever since their parents got divorced. On top of all of Alex's stress, his baseball season starts as he finds out his football teammate, Matt Gordon, is eligible to play baseball after found guilty for taking

In the sports novel The Batboy by Mike Lupica Brian is the batboy for a Major League Baseball team. During the season he meets his idol, Hank Bishop, who is not who Brian thought it would be. The theme of the the book is to never give up, which is expressed by both of the main characters in the book.

I would recommend this to those people because it was alway hooking me in and I never wanted to put the book down. The baseball part is about Michael and his Clippers team when they made it all the way to the Little League World Series. The dream of Michael the protagonist in the story it is to make it to the Little League World Series and he does and that makes the book so interesting to me because I can relate to it. The cliffhangers in the book are really good. Usually in books when the chapter ends I like to take a break but in this book I never wanted to put it down. The baseball in the book is a little unrealistic but it’s ok because I still enjoyed it and you should read it if you enjoy baseball and cliffhangers in one

This summer I’ve read the book Heat by Mike Lupica. This baseball themed book is a out of the park excitement. It’s about a 12 year old cuban boy named Michael who is newly orphaned but loves to throw killer heat. But everything goes downhill when Michael can't prove his age by a lost birth certificate and gets kicked off the team. Michael tries to do his best by supporting the team by the sidelines. It gets worst, since his brother Carlos is only 17, they have to stay in the shadows so they don't get separated into foster homes.

In the beginning of the book, Michael was an all-star baseball pitcher. Game after game he pitched very excellent even though they’re only allowed so many pitches a week because they are in little league. Michael is a twelve-year-old boy that can pitch eighty-miles per hour. Michael saw this bad kid running from the cops, so Michael throws the ball from home plate all the way past the field and hit the guy in the head knocking him to the ground. Michael meets this wonderful girl one day and later on founded out that she was his hero’s daughter and wasn’t too happy with her when he found out because she didn’t tell him.

The book I read was “The Fenway Foul-up” by David A. Kelly. It is number one in the ball park series it was published in 2011. The book is about two cousins name Mike and Kate who are big Boston Red Sox fans. Kate’s mother is a reporter for American Sportz so they have an all access pass to Fenway Park. During batting practice one of the best players on the Red Sox lucky bat has gone missing. Without that bat Big D was not going to do well, so Mike and Kate was determine to find out who took it. They gathered clues by asking questions and finding evidence. At first they believed it was and an old man, but they discovered it was the photographer. They quickly told the batboy they found the bat and he told Big D which resulted into the Red Sox winning the game. When the game was finish Mike and Kate got the chance to tour the dugout and meet Big D. Big D thank them both and gave Mike a autographed baseball ball sign by the whole team and Kate a replica of his luck bat that was sign by him.

The author's purpose of writing the book, the big field, is to show you that you should never give up and never quite what you are trying to do. In the book a boy named hutch. Hutch was the best shortstop and was the best player on the team for many years , and then one day a boy named Darryl joined the team. He was one of the best in the state. Hutch was moved to second base and Darryl was now shortstop. He did not like to be the second best player, especially not under Darryl. Him and Darryl would always get into fights about baseball. Hutch would not just stop there and be under him.

He even sets the minor league record for career home runs. After all of this he still fights with all his energy to make the majors, he is one of the team’s leading hitters and mentors the team’s star pitcher, Nuke. Again, despite his efforts the team decides to send him down. At first, he is heartbroken, but then he bounces back on his feet and decides to become a manager. Even though he does not get to achieve his dream of being a major leaguer he adapts and makes the most of his situation. By all measures he fails in almost every aspect of becoming a major leaguer, but in the end he is happy and is doing what he loves. This is a key to the American lifestyle.

For a 12-year-old Cuban boy living in the Bronx, baseball is his family's only way out and means a better tomorrow. In the novel, Heat by Mike Lupica, baseball represents a way out and a better tomorrow. He loves baseball and idolizes the Yankees pitcher El Grande, who was also Cuban-born. Michael Arroyo is a young boy who has reasons to distrust the representatives of the state must figure out how to continue life on his own terms while navigating the adult world and avoiding both the well-meaning and the badly-intentioned interference of grown-ups. Michael is also the best baseball pitcher on his South Bronx all-star team. Michael's arm is so good, that a rival Little League coach begins requesting proof that he's only 12 and eligible to play. They ask for his father but, recently, his father took a trip to Florida and had a heart attack, killing him. Michael and his 17-year-old brother Carlos, are trying to avoid Child Protective Services until Carlos turns 18.

Clouds mugged the sun of light as the day progressed. Dusk filled the air on the baseball diamond where I would leave my legacy. Forth, was the championship game to be played, and the pressure of the starting pitcher, was not fazing me. In the zone, we said the Little League pledge. Jolts of excitement filled my muscles as I recited the piece that I know all too well. Warming up, I was controlled, and was ready to bring it. The game began with a bang. Strikeout after strikeout I fired, giving my all every single pitch. ‘BOOM’ went the glove after every pitch, whizzed right by the petrified batter. However, this was not much different for our team. Just two hits filled the board, I and my teammate Ian Keth. Scoring off of this was efficient,

He also shows the important role that baseball played in the complex relationship with his father as one

When viewing the stanza of the poem “Analysis of Baseball” the author describes the game of baseball. Using the elements personification, onomatopoeia, consonance and, rhymes words. So, therefore the poem can come alive to many baseball fans. The author also uses metaphor to compare bat, ball, and mitt.

osh is our protagonist in this book he is the kid with all the power and looks and overall a great guy. During the run to the championship Josh goes up to bat a gets hit with a beanball right in the cheek and is down even though he is hurting he stays in the game. On the next defensive series he turns a triple play to win the Championship Game now the move on to the Hall of Fame Tour in Cooperstown. This book takes place With Josh and his two other friends Jaden and Benji they spend time out on the lake at each other’s houses and of course the baseball field. The big conflict in this story is that they made it to the Championship game in the Hall of Fame tour and Josh’s best friend Jaden goes and reports for the rival team with star baseball

In the moment that Mikey goes on the team of baseball, they started to succeed in the games that they played, the arrival of Mikey make the team happy and exciting each game, and making the team one step closer to winning the baseball season.