Tammy Tries Baseball

By Dawn Brotherton

Tammy and her friends from the Lady Tigers fastpitch softball team are a force to be reckoned with, but the boys don’t seem to think softball is that hard. When the challenge is accepted, both the girls and the boys have an eye-opening experience. The Lady Tigers know what it truly means to play like a girl.
Competition between boys and girls is practically a staple of growing up, especially in activities where spirits run high—like dedicated sports teams. The Lady Tigers and the local boys’ baseball team are no different. But through their ball-based rivalry, children from both teams learn not only to play, but to respect the other team’s sport as well. Although baseball seems like a foreign game, Tammy and her friends learn that there are similarities to recognize and differences to explore in both sports. Trying something new can lead to wonderful discoveries and unexpected friends. At the end of the day, both baseball and softball players want the same thing: a great group of teammates, a healthy pastime, and lots of smiles as they take part in their favorite game.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Blue Dragon Publishing, LLC
• Release date: Sep 29, 2018
• ISBN: 9781939696489

Dawn Brotherton

Dawn Brotherton is an award-winning author and featured speaker at writing and publishing seminars. When it comes to exceptional writing, Dawn draws on her experience as a retired colonel from the US Air Force as well as a softball coach. She has also completed four books (Trish’s Team; Margie Makes a Difference; Nicole’s New Friend, and Tammy Tries Baseball) in the middle grade Lady Tigers Series about girls’ fastpitch softball, encouraging female athletes to reach for the stars in the game they love. As a mother of two female athletes, Dawn is intent on encouraging women to “play like a girl,” which means play with determination, teamwork, sportsmanship and most of all, a love of the game. Under nonfiction, the Softball Scoresheet was created to keep score during softball games with instructions written for those not as familiar with the intricacies of the game.

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Tammy Tries Baseball

Lady Tigers Series

By

Dawn Brotherton

Tammy Tries Baseball

Lady Tigers Series

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Published by Blue Dragon Publishing, LLC.

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Copyright 2018 Dawn Brotherton at Smashwords

ISBN 978-1-939696-47-2 (hardback)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2018910239

Illustrations and cover by Vineet Siddhartha

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Dedication

To Paige, for being my walking thesaurus.

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Chapter 1

Ah, you hit like a girl! the young boy taunted from behind the backstop.

"You wish you could hit like a girl," Tammy Marshall called back without turning her head.

Tammy tried not to let the comment bother her, but she was distracted. Boys can be so annoying, she thought.

While she was thinking, the pitch blew by her and smacked into the catcher’s mitt.

Ha! Girls don’t actually hit the ball, I guess, the boy said loudly.

Tammy’s face turned red as she focused on the next pitch delivered by her teammate and close friend, Sally Andrews.

The pitch was low and outside—right where Tammy liked them. With a smooth swing, she sent the ball sailing deep into right field. As she took off running for first base, she heard the boy behind the backstop yell, Lucky hit!

She smiled as she rounded first and headed for second. The throw from right-fielder Amy Dover came to the second base bag on one bounce. Tammy laid out for the slide as Bianca Lopez’s glove caught her in the hip, but not before her feet contacted the bag.

Safe! called Coach Kory Kerrington from his vantage point between the pitcher and the base.

The shortstop helped Tammy to her feet and her teammates called out their congratulations on a great hit. Sally walked to second base to meet Tammy.

Tammy put her hand up for a high-five. Thanks for the great pitch, she said.

Boys don’t know a thing about softball, Sally replied, giving Tammy’s hand a slap with her glove.

Tammy loved this team. Even a Saturday afternoon practice was more fun than it was work. Today was no different. They had finished their basic drills in record time, so the coaches were letting them hit and run. The girls liked this more than the other drills because it more closely simulated a real game. The Lady Tigers didn’t have enough girls to field two teams. That meant they had to work harder to cover more ground.

The Lady Tigers’s fourteen and under travel fastpitch softball team was part of a highly competitive league. At this age, most of the weekend tournaments they played were within a few hours driving distance, but the older Lady Tigers sometimes traveled to other states for games.

Tammy had started playing for the Tigers in June and had quickly formed close friendships with the other girls on the team. They practiced two or three times a week and spent many weekends together. A tournament could easily consistent of three to five games on a Saturday and then up to five games on a Sunday—if your team kept winning.

Nikki Andrews, Sally’s sister, was next up to bat, and Tammy cheered her on. C’mon, Nikki. Bring me home!

Sally pitched a fast ball. Tammy had taken her lead as soon as the ball left Sally’s hand,