Title: Farm Team Author: Will Weaver Pages: 400 The book Farm Team by Will Weaver is one of the better books I have been able to read this past year. The setting is revealed as the book begins. It takes place the first day of the 1971 baseball season at Flint Middle School, here, Billy Baggs shows up for his second year of baseball. After pitching a perfect game in Weavers" last book called striking out, the coach who watched him throw it was impressed enough to want him as a pitcher for a full season. ... When his father said he couldn't play and to stay home and work on the fa...

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Between the movie and the book there are many events that take place that are different. ... The book is different from the movie in many ways. ... Ray Kinsella was called upon by forces left unknown to the viewers and him to go on both a physical journey as well as a journey of the heart. ... After each new message, Ray was called upon to further his journey. ... At one point in the story Ray was going to give up his quest and go back home to Iowa. ...

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This causes no end of confusion, because the steroid crisis currently ravaging pro sports mostly concerns one type of steroid in particular: so-called anabolic-androgenic steroids. ... Most of the muscle-building steroids used by athletes consist of either testosterone, some synthesized likeness, or a so- called precursor that is metabolized as testosterone in the body. ... Some athletes take even higher doses, called mega doses, to produce faster results. ... As the commissioner's office turned a blind eye to the home run boom of the late 1990's, baseball writers and broadcasters...

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