Wing Ding (11 page)
Authors: Kevin Markey
PLAYER: Ducks Bunion
POSITION: left field
THROWS: left
BATS: left
PLAYER: Stump Plumwhiff
POSITION: shortstop
THROWS: right
BATS: right
PLAYER: The Great Walloper, Banjo H. Bishbash
POSITION: third base
THROWS: right
BATS: right
PLAYER: Orlando “Velcro” Ramirez
POSITION: center field
THROWS: left
BATS: left
PLAYER: Tugboat Tooley
POSITION: catcher
THROWS: right
BATS: right
PLAYER: Gilly Wishes
POSITION: first base
THROWS: left
BATS: left
PLAYER: Slingshot Slocum
POSITION: pitcher
THROWS: right
BATS: right
PLAYER: Octavio “Ocho” James
POSITION: right field
THROWS: right
BATS: right
PLAYER: Ellis “the Glove” Rodriguez
POSITION: second base
THROWS: right
BATS: right
PLAYER: Gasser Phipps
POSITION: center field
THROWS: right
BATS: right
PLAYER: Kid Rabbit Winkle
POSITION: substitute third base
THROWS: right
BATS: right
PLAYER: Skipper Lou “Skip-to-My-Lou” Clementine
POSITION: manager
PLAYER: Flicker Pringle
POSITION: pitcher
TEAM: Hog City Haymakers
PLAYER: Charlie “Slats” Connolly
POSITION: catcher
TEAM: Bixburg Blue Bottles
PLAYER: Hoot Fewster
POSITION: first base
TEAM: Hog City Haymakers
PLAYER: Bunker Dodge
POSITION: second base
TEAM: Lumleyville Lumberjacks
PLAYER: The Great Walloper, Banjo H. Bishbash
POSITION: third base
TEAM: Rambletown Rounders
PLAYER: Stump Plumwhiff
POSITION: shortstop
TEAM: Rambletown Rounders
PLAYER: Ducks Bunion
POSITION: left field
TEAM: Rambletown Rounders
PLAYER: Choo-Choo Choo, the “Steam Engine”
POSITION: center field
TEAM: Bixburg Blue Bottles
PLAYER: Medric “Buttered Toast” Salazar
POSITION: right field
TEAM: Camden Clockers
PLAYER: Grant Vesper
POSITION: pitcher
TEAM: St. Joe Jungle Cats
PLAYER: Mudfish LaRouche
POSITION: catcher
TEAM: Pikerton Scrooges
PLAYER: Cheese Grabini
POSITION: first base
TEAM: Sand Hill Rooks
PLAYER: Cesar “Hot Pocket” Escalante
POSITION: second base
TEAM: Attitash Rowdies
PLAYER: Cannonball Crawford
POSITION: third base
TEAM: Windsor Gaskets
PLAYER: Snapper Po
POSITION: shortstop
TEAM: Pikerton Scrooges
PLAYER: Linus “Stinkeye” Boyle
POSITION: left field
TEAM: Windsor Gaskets
PLAYER: Chick Hernanski
POSITION: center field
TEAM: St. Joe Jungle Cats
PLAYER: Eddie “Gravedigger” Veach
POSITION: right field
TEAM: Laconia Poets
PLAYER: Ducks Bunion
HEIGHT: 4' 4”
WEIGHT: 75
LITTLE-KNOWN FACT: Ducks holds the neighborhood pogo stick recordâ1037.
PLAYER: Stump Plumwhiff
HEIGHT: 4' 1”
WEIGHT: 64
LITTLE-KNOWN FACT: Stump owns a complete set of Major League baseball cards for every year since he was born.
PLAYER: The Great Walloper, Banjo H. Bishbash
HEIGHT: 4' 5”
WEIGHT: 73
LITTLE-KNOWN FACT: Walloper loves to read mystery stories, particularly the Phantom Association books.
PLAYER: Orlando “Velcro” Ramirez
HEIGHT: 4' 4”
WEIGHT: 74
LITTLE-KNOWN FACT: For Halloween, Orlando dressed up as the masked swordsman Zorro.
PLAYER: Tugboat Tooley
HEIGHT: 4' 9”
WEIGHT: 85
LITTLE-KNOWN FACT: Tugboat's favorite insect is the Madagascar hissing cockroach.
PLAYER: Gilly Wishes
HEIGHT: 4' 6”
WEIGHT: 80
LITTLE-KNOWN FACT: Gilly once laughed so hard he passed part of a hot dog through his nose.
PLAYER: Slingshot Slocum
HEIGHT: 4' 5”
WEIGHT: 72
LITTLE-KNOWN FACT: Slingshot built a model volcano for the fourth-grade science fair. It blasted the school ceiling with a stream of foamy red liquid.
PLAYER: Octavio “Ocho” James
HEIGHT: 4' 4”
WEIGHT: 74
LITTLE-KNOWN FACT: When Octavio was home-schooled, he learned to count to twenty in six different languages, including Mandarin Chinese.
PLAYER: Ellis “the Glove” Rodriguez
HEIGHT: 4' 3”
WEIGHT: 69
LITTLE-KNOWN FACT: With his lightning reflexes, Ellis caught a fly with his bare handâthe insect kind of fly, not the baseball kind.
PLAYER: Gasser Phipps
HEIGHT: 4' 8”
WEIGHT: 84
LITTLE-KNOWN FACT: Gasser can recite the entire alphabet while burping.
PLAYER: Kid Rabbit Winkle
HEIGHT: 4' 2”
WEIGHT: 67
LITTLE-KNOWN FACT: After baseball, Kid Rabbit's second-favorite sport is track and field, especially the long jump.
KEVIN MARKEY
always feels a thrill when baseball spring training opens in Florida in February. Where he lives, snow usually covers the ground that time of year. The opening of the Major League camps is like the annual return of robinsâit means spring is just around the corner.
Kevin is the author of
SLUMPBUSTER
and
WALL BALL
, the hilarious first and second books in his Super Sluggers series of baseball adventures, and several books of nonfiction. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children and a lovable yellow-haired dog named Happy. He bats left, throws left, and types with both hands. You can visit him online at www.kevinmarkey.com.
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Jacket art © 2011 by David Merrell
Jacket design by Ray Shappell
THE SUPER SLUGGERS: WING DING
. Text copyright © 2011 by Kevin Markey. Illustration, Back Matter, copyright © 2011 by David Merrell. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Markey, Kevin.
Wing ding / Kevin Markey. â 1st ed.
p. cm. â (The super sluggers)
Summary: When star shortstop for the Rambletown Rounders, Stump Plumwhiff, comes down with a bad case of the “yips,” his teammates try to help him regain his self-confidence before the All-Star game.
ISBN 978-0-06-115225-2 (trade bdg.)
[1. BaseballâFiction. 2. Self-confidenceâFiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M3394546Wi   2011       2010015901
[Fic]âdc22 Â Â Â Â Â Â CIP
AC
FIRST EDITION
EPub Edition © January 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-206983-2
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