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Ezra Feldman is nine years old.  He loves baseball more than anything in the world. Ezra's father wonders why Ezra would rather sit on the couch and watch baseball than play chess or read a book.  Can several surprising things help Ezra and his father understand each other?  I could not put down this book.  It is easy to read, but very interesting.

Spring 2002

Ezra really loves baseball.  He collects baseball cards and watches every New York Mets game he can.  His father hates baseball.  He teaches history and he loves chess.  Ezra's brother is very smart and he goes to a good college like his father did.  But Ezra just wants his father to like baseball so he can be like his friend's dad.

One day Ezra and his father have to go to Albany and strangely enough Ezra's dad meets his boss at a place where they are eating. Ezra wants to go to Cooperstown to see the Baseball Hall of Fame. His father says he can't go, but his boss makes him take Ezra to the Baseball Hall of Fame.  Once Ezra's dad sees the Hall of Fame,  he thinks baseball is not so bad and when they get home, Ezra's dad challenges his son to a chess match.  Ezra's dad is really good at chess and he says, "Once you beat me, I will take you to a Mets game."  Ezra pratices really hard and he tries to beat his dad three times, but he does not win.  One day he gets up and says, "I am going to a Mets game because I am going to beat my dad in chess." So he plays his dad in chess and... you'll have to read the book to find out if he wins.

Winter 2002