Jinxed! by Kurtis Scaletta & Eric Wight

Author:Kurtis Scaletta & Eric Wight
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Amulet Books
Published: 2012-03-13T16:00:00+00:00

met Dad on the sidewalk in front of our house. He was walking our dog, Penny. She was happy to see me and barked. I knelt down to scratch her ears.

“I didn’t think you’d be back so late,” said Dad. “The game was finished two hours ago.”

“There’s a lot to do afterwards,” I explained.

We went inside. Dad unleashed Penny, and she followed me into the living room.

Mom muted the TV. “It looked like you were having fun,” she said, “even though the Porcupines lost.”

“Yeah. Wait—you were there?”

“We wouldn’t have missed it for anything,” said Mom.

“Besides,” said Dad, “we wanted to make sure you weren’t shirking your duties.”

“He’s so proud of you,” Mom said. “He kept nudging the guy next to him and saying, ‘That’s my boy.’”

“You did it, too,” Dad muttered.

• • •

I decided to go to bed early. The Porcupines had a day game tomorrow. And not just any day game, either. It was Kids Get In Free Day. The ballpark would be packed, and a lot of my friends would be there. I wanted to be rested and ready.

I looked at the bookshelf lined with binders and boxes full of baseball cards. I liked baseball cards even before I liked baseball. I liked seeing where players came from and what minor league teams they had played for. Some of my favorite cards had random facts about players that had nothing to do with baseball: It would say that a player’s boyhood nickname was Peanut or that his favorite food was Mallomars. When I knew about the guys in the game, the game was more interesting.

That’s what Dylan needed, I realized. If he knew the players and their stories, he would have to like the game better.

I couldn’t drag my whole collection into the locker room. I would have to put all my favorite cards together.

I started pulling binders off the shelf.

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