Batting .367

By Derek

I couldn't believe it! I got to be jersey number nine on the Oakland Athletics baseball team! That made me really happy: especially since I got to be some what like my great- great grandfather Ty Cobb. He was on of the best baseball players ever. He was number nine and a catcher on the Athletics team for many years in Philadelphia. In 1929 Ty retired with a lifetime batting average of .367, which is the highest percentage in history. Then around forty years later Ty died at the age of 74.

The season was going great for my team and we only had one loss to the Red Sox. We all knew we were going to the play-offs, but still acted surprised when our coach said, "Were playing in the big one!"

It was seven o'clock in the evening and the game that everyone had been waiting for was about to start. Everyone was at least a little nervous, we were the so called under dogs. The little play-offs felt like the World Series for our team that night.

It had been a nail-biter of a game all evening and the few fans that were there had been enough of a crowd to make it seem like 100,000 people from 70 countries were watching. It was the bottom of the ninth, the score was 9 to 10, and we had two outs. Peter was on second base, Allen on third base and me at bat! I crushed the ball and it looked like a home run, but was knocked down by the wind. Peter and Allen ran home. The crowd roared like thunder. As I came home, after watching the ball, I got thrown out at third base! I was out and it so good because to runner just scored we were going to win and bad at the same time because I had just got thrown out! I had won my first play-off game!