These fun, illustrated early chapter books feature the adventures--and
misadventures--of the Pine City Porcupines, a hapless baseball farm
team, and their two batboys: Chad, an avid baseball fan with a huge
baseball card collection, and Dylan, who doesn't know a thing about the
sport. The fictional series has a unique twist: Chad solves problems by
using information from Topps cards of real figures from modern baseball
history.
Pine City Porcupines batboy Chad breaks an important unofficial rule of
baseball: Don't talk to the starting pitcher when he's got a perfect
game going, where not a single opponent has reached base. Now, because
Chad opened his mouth, the entire Pines dugout is upset, and the team
may lose to the second-to-last-place West Valley Varmints. Chad has to
consult his baseball card collection to figure out how to help his
beloved Pines pull off the perfect game.