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[|the source] sports: an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.

we chose three books on.  ''Mike Lupica Realistic Fiction Danny Walker a kid in Middle-town who goes to camp is called Right Way for the summer. His town friends get to go with him to Will and Ty. This is a camp where all the kids in the whole country that are good,talented and get picked to go. He has a friend that he knew since they were little and felt sorry. It was a girl named Tess, might have some sort of emotion for her. But to be true read the book. In Right Way Camp he later meets new friends that traveled to get here like Tarik. For Danny this was a bad start because he got separated from his friends at cabins. There he meets a kid named Zach a kid that he thinks that has the same personality as he does. He doesn’t want to be here to, so Danny helped him get comfortable. To top that all he meets his enemy in the tournament last year a kid named Rasheed and has bigger problems with his new coach. This wasn’t what he thought it was for a camp. This wasn’t what he thought it was for a camp. Will he give up and leave or fight to the challenge and over come it? ' '[|the source] A graduate of **Boston College**, **Mike Lupica**began his career covering the **New York Knicks** for the **New York Post** //at the age of 23. At 24, he moved to New York and became the youngest columnist to ever write a regular column for a New York City newspaper. he also wrote for The National and Newsday newspapers// during his long career, but he spent 25 years writing his four times a week column for the Daily News, including his popular ?Shooting From the Lip? column every Sunday. [|the source]
 * basketball: Summer ball By Mike Lupica

//''Shorty and his family, along with thousands of Japanese Americans, are sent to an internment camp after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Fighting the heat and dust of the desert, Shorty and his father decide to build a baseball diamond and form a league in order to boost the spirits of the internees. Shorty quickly learns that he is playing not only to win, but to gain dignity and self-respect as well". //[|the source]
 * baseball:Baseball saved us:By Ken Mochizuki

"Ken Mochizuki was born in Seatle, Washington. He attended the University of Washington and earned a degree in communications. After he graduating, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. After living there for 5 years, he moved back to Seattle and became a writer. He became a staff reporter and editor for the newspaper in Seattle, Washington. He has published a couple books. His first, "Baseball Saved Us"-[|the source] Illustrator(s)**Dom Lee** " was born in Seoul, Korea. He received his BFA in Painting from the College of Fine Arts at Seoul National University in Korea. In 1990,he moved to the United States and graduated from the MFA Illustration as Visual Essay at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. As a fine artist, he held numerous exhibitions in both Korea and the United States. Dom also works as a free-lance illustrator. His artworks can be found in children's books, book jackets, magazines, and various other products".[|the source]  //"A young, inexperienced football team discovers its beginner's luck is due to a series of mysterious but successful plays anonymously sent to the coach.
 * football:The team that couldn't lose:By Matt Christopher

When inexperienced Phil Wayne takes over as coach of the Cayugans, Chip Chase figures that they're in for a losing season. But Phil surprises everyone by teaching the team a fantastic new play every week -- plays that help them win game after game. Then Phil admits to the boys that each week one play is mailed to him anonymously. Will Chip and his teammates discover who// the mystery coach is before the season ends"? -[|the source]

"Born in Bath, Pennsylvania in 1917, Matt Christopher has become the best selling sportswriter for children. Raised in Ludlowville, New York, Christopher began writing detective novels in 1940. Between working many labor jobs, Christopher discovered his real passion for writing about his favorite topic: sports. Twelve years after writing his first adult novel, he tried his hand at children’s literature and //The Lucky Baseball Bat// was published in 1952. Over the course of 34 years, Christopher wrote over 120 novels, most of which became best sellers. Matt Christopher died in Charlotte, North Carolina, on September 20, 1997, from a brain tumor".[|the source] Illustrators:John Held Junior:"Another child prodigy, as it seems so many of these pages record, Held supposedly sold his first drawing at age nine. It's certain that he sold his first drawing to the original //Life// magazine at fifteen and was hired as the sports cartoonist for the //Salt Lake City Tribune// when he was sixteen. His early medium of choice was the wood block, which he returned to in various guises several times. This is fortunate for us, as much of his published and most famous work is done in an energetic but very fine line that the web has trouble reproducing in moderately-sized files. A 1926 sample is above right"[|the source]Illustartors:Al Hirschfield:"Al Hirschfeld is a child prodigy who grew old but never up. His view of the world around him, particularly the American theater, is as fresh and unique and joyous as ever. He was born in 1903 and the twentieth century was full of opportunities for an ambitious young man. As a teenager, he lived in New York City and studied art. After an early but short career with Samuel Goldwyn Studios (where he got his first art assignments doing ads) he moved over to Selznick Pictures and by 1921, at the ripe old age of 17, he was their art director. A short stint running his own art studio ended up badly when Selznick went bankrupt. A job with Warner Brothers allowed Hirschfeld to pay off his employees and, as a reward, his uncle bought him a ticket to Paris and gave him $500".[|the source]