Carrie's Courage by Norma Jean Lutz

Author:Norma Jean Lutz [LUTZ, NORMA JEAN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-62836-190-2
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2005-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 10

World Series

“The Babe’s the greatest!” Garvey stood with his hands on his hips and a scowl on his face. He was on the schoolgrounds, facing off with another fifth-grader named Wally.

“He is not,” Wally spouted back. “He’s a has-been. My uncle lives in New York. Goes to see him play right there in the brand- spanking-new Yankee Stadium. He says the Babe doesn’t train properly, and he’s getting too old. He’s all washed up.”

“That’s a bunch of hogwash,” Garvey retorted. “What does your uncle know, anyhow? How can you call forty-one home runs being washed up?”

“He’s almost twenty-nine years old,” Wally flailed back, now almost nose-to-nose with Garvey. “That’s too old to be playing ball.”

“For other men, maybe,” Garvey conceded. “But not for the Babe. He’s bigger and better than all the rest.”

Carrie and Violet were sitting on the jungle gym, listening to the feud, a feud that seemed to go on endlessly now that the World Series was only a week away. That morning, in the first hour, Mrs. Harwell had announced that the ladies who worked in the school office planned to keep the radio on during the Series. They prom- ised to report the scores at the end of each inning. Every boy in fifth grade cheered the announcement.

Even though Carrie wasn’t much interested in baseball, she tended to agree with Garvey. She’d often seen Babe Ruth in the newsreels. He seemed like a magical person. Bigger and more famous even than all the movie stars. He was flocked by children wherever he went, and he never turned them away. The newsreels showed him visiting orphanages and hospitals, where he took time to autograph baseballs and give them to the children. It was no wonder Garvey and Nate worshiped him so.

Garvey and Wally’s standoff never came to blows. They seldom did. Before recess was over, they were playing ball together once again.

That afternoon, Garvey slipped up to Wally and apologized for being so harsh with him earlier. Wally smiled and accepted the apology. What he didn’t know was that in his other hand, Garvey had a sign and a piece of adhesive tape. When he walked away, a sign was stuck to Wally’s back that announced to the world: “THE BABE’S THE GREATEST!”

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