Chapter 21NO NEWS REPORTS emerged on Wednesday about a stolen nuke. Fritz's focus returned to his classes and his meeting with prospective history-baseball players—the kids. Thirty-two teams, sixteen players, more than five-hundred students. In the auditorium. All at once. More than sixty teachers had stepped up, not including Ashley. Fritz pondered the enormity of the undertaking. Enormous. He told his ninth graders that they could play if they wanted, but he hoped they would help instead. The class chose Susan Leslie as the chairperson for the planning that remained. Never having had so much responsibility before, she rubbed her hands together nervously. Fritz reminded her that she would have a lot of support.
HE CRUISED into the second week of November far ahead of his schedule. Maybe
