The Bat 6 game started in the spring of 1899 as a girls’ baseball competition between Bear Creek and Barlow Road Grade Schools. Many enjoyed the competition, and soon Bat 6 became a tradition. Bear Creek and Barlow would send their top players each year to the challenge. The Bat 6 game of 1949 1949, though—it marked the 50th year anniversary of the game. The teams were well prepared.

Aki Mikami is a Japanese girl that returned to her town (Bear Creek Ridge) fr

Shazam, forced after the game to see Aki, finally gives in and visits the hospital. She apologizes and explains the prejudice that she grew up with—having her father be killed by the Japanese in WWII. The girls of both teams became more aware of WWII and its effects on people’s opinions and feelings. The players were happy to lean that Aki was alive. Yet, they were still torn apart from the incident.

Overall, Bat 6 is a very enjoyable and interesting book to read. The plot is historically informing, as it portrays a rural town’s aftermath of World War II. The reader can never expect what will happen next, for the book has many twists and turns where friendships can bud or wither at any time. Bat 6’s 50 year anniversary will remain scoreless, but the girls did not leave empty-handed; they realized that although the game went down in history as being the only failure, they grew up emotionally by learning about prejudice and the effects of war on people’s behavior and feelings for each other.

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