Curve Ball (Sports Stories) - Softcover

Tom Poulos is sure his baseball team, the Jarvis Badgers, will make the Toronto playoffs this year. He's looking forward to a summer of playing little league and watching big league ball, until he's sent to Winnipeg to stay with relatives he hasn't even met. Winnipeg doesn't have a major league team and his Uncle Nick, a first-generation migrant from Greece, is strange in an old-world kind of way. Tom soon finds, however, that a smaller field still offers plenty of challenges-to play and to learn.Curve Ball shows how unexpected changes-in sport and in life-offer opportunities to learn and to grow.