Umpire Solomon Johnson is squeezing the strike zone and throws out both the Pine City Porcupines starting pitcher and manager "Grumps" Humphrey for arguing the call. Chad tries to make peace by giving Solomon a rarely issued "umpire card"-but the ump blows his top. He thinks Chad is making fun of his weight. It's going to be a long nine innings!

 

There are 112 pages in this book. This is a chapter book. Publishers market early chapter books at readers aged 6-10 years. This book was published 2013 by Abrams .

Kurtis Scaletta is the author of several well-received school novels. Eric Wight is an author, illustrator, animation director and creator of the chapter book series, Frankie Pickle