The Game Short Story

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The Game
It was opening day on March 29, the Manager of the Royals was sitting in his skybox office working on the team’s schedule for the coming year. His aide entered into the room with a letter from the commissioner saying that that he would need to squeeze a High School baseball game somewhere into the Royal’s schedule. He is baffled, how was he going to include a High School game into the busiest schedule of the busiest team in the busiest year ever in the history of the MLB. He finished the team’s schedule that day so that he could get to work on the High School game when a bird landed on his window sill and then took flight again. That is when it hit him, he could just schedule the game for a date when the Royals were playing a traveling …show more content…

Caiden was tall for the age of fifteen and always wore a hat he was also very ambitious, while Wilson was a stocky kid with red hair. They were both very diligent and that is probably what made them such good friends. They had been best friends since Caiden had moved into the neighborhood almost five years before. They spent almost every day at each other’s house. Sometimes they would play catch in one of their backyards or they would walk to the local baseball fields to practice hitting or on other days they would just play video games at either of their houses On this particular day Caiden’s mother walked out of the house and into the backyard with an excited look on her face. Caiden asked what happened and she told the boys that they were going to get to play a baseball game at Kauffman stadium. They were ecstatic, they were going to get to play where the Royals played! The next step was to practice like they had never practiced …show more content…

The coach had not resigned as the athletic director had convinced him to finish his last season. Caiden and Wilson decided to play for a private league and the whole team including the coach joined them, they had their first game two weeks later and because they had all prepared so much for the game at the K, they easily won the game. They won game after game after game and their confidence grew from where it had fallen after the game at Kauffman. They ended the summer season with a perfect record of 25 wins and 0 losses. The week after the season ended the coach got a letter in the mail from the Little League World Series association inviting him and his team to play in the Little League World Series qualifying tournament. All in all their hard work payed off, just not in the way they were expecting. THE

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