Bull Catcher

by Alden R. Carter

Book Overview

Neil Bull Larsen loves baseball more than anything. But when he submits his four-year baseball diary as his senior project, he is prompted to take a closer look at his life--and learns some important... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590509594
• ISBN13: 9780590509596
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.7"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Bull Catcher is a great book for teenage baseball fans.

Neil "Bull" Larson is a very big kid who loves to play baseball (he is a catcher). His mom is a businesswoman who lives in L.A. Bull's grandma died when he was still a little kid so now he lives with just his grandpa. He goes to High School in Shipley, Wisconsin, and plays baseball for the school's team. In the beginning, Neil is playing for the jayvee team as a Junior. A Vietnamese kid named Phuong moves to their school and Bull and his best friend, Jeff (shortstop), try to convince him to pitch for their team, but it was a lot harder than they had expected. They saw him to be a great pitcher because of his long arms. They were right that he could throw hard, and he was also very accurate. For the first ten minutes anyway. He just started throwing wild and everything. After a while, Phuong decided that this was not for him, so he decided that he did not want to play baseball. After a couple of days, Jeff began to get really mad at him. Bull talked to Phuong and found out why this always happens to him. He said he just concentrates to hard. So, Bull worked on Phuong's control with pitching. By the time that the season started, he decided to play baseball. Neil and him were so good that the next year they played varsity as Sophomores. Bull felt bad that he made to varsity before Jeff did. That year they finished third. The next year, Jeff was on varsity with everyone else, and he was named captain. They were tied for first place going into a tiebreaking final game of the year. They lost that and is was very tough for Bull to get over it. That summer, he became a counselor at a summer camp and had a great time.

Bull Catcher a great book for teenages

Bull Catcheris a book about a teenager named Neil and his friends Jeff and Billy.The book follows them all through high school.This book is good for ages eleven through fifteen.The book is good becasue it has a great story line.It is also good because it tells about baseball and show how hard it is to get a athletic scholarship to any major school.Also this book deals with serious issues and isn't suitable for so young ages.

Bull catcher

Bull Catcher was a good book. It had a lot of forshadowing in it maybe a little too much because it was always giving you clues and little hints about things that were going to happen latter on in the book and when you put it down you already figured out what was going to happen so you didn't want to start reading it again. The book had a lot of sttings in it and that made the book good because sence it had a lot of settings in it so it was always discribing somthing. The book was about two kids that there life long dream is to play baseball for the major legues. They play baseball all the time even during the winter that is how much they love baseball. One kid is a realy good catcher and his name is bull. The other one is a pretty good pitcher and a realy good short stop and he nows his stuff, his name is Jeff. The two kids meet this exchange student from Korea that is a realy good pitcher he just doesn't know it yet and his name is Phuong. They all try out for the school varcity baseball team after they work on Phoung's pitch. Jeff played like he usaely does and its good but its not what the coach wants so he gets benched. Phuong and Bull doe good so there second behind the starters. Bull gets in trouble he can't play for a little while and a whole big goes on becuase his team is playing there rivalsand he dosen't get to play and he turned sixteen so his grand pa wants him to drive there but he doesn't want to watch the team. I would tell you more but it would ruin the story for anyone who wants to read the story's. I recommend it to every one because it's a great book and it has a little bit of every thing in it.

Bull catcher

(...)It was a good book. It had a lot of forshadowing in it maybe a little too much because it was always giving you clues and little hints about things that were going to happen latter on in the book and when you put it down you already figured out what was going to happen so you didn't want to start reading it again. The book had a lot of sttings in it and that made the book good because sence it had a lot of settings in it so it was always discribing somthing. The book was about two kids that there life long dream is to play baseball for the major legues. They play baseball all the time even during the winter that is how much they love baseball. One kid is a realy good catcher and his name is bull. The other one is a pretty good pitcher and a realy good short stop and he nows his stuff, his name is Jeff. The two kids meet this exchange student from Korea that is a realy good pitcher he just doesn't know it yet and his name is Phuong. They all try out for the school varcity baseball team after they work on Phoung's pitch. Jeff played like he usaely does and its good but its not what the coach wants so he gets benched. Phuong and Bull doe good so there second behind the starters. Bull gets in trouble he can't play for a little while and a whole big goes on becuase his team is playing there rivalsand he dosen't get to play and he turned sixteen so his grand pa wants him to drive there but he doesn't want to watch the team. I would tell you more but it would ruin the story for anyone who wants to read the story's. I recommend it to every one because it's a great book and it has a little bit of every thing in it.

For any young, sportsman, this book stirs the imagination

My 10 year old son and I read this book together over a period of 2 weeks. My son hates to read but loves sports so this was my opportunity to encourage a partnership between something he didn't like and something he loves. This book brought a new interest into his life. It is superbly written with just the right amount of humor, parental annoyance, not-to-hot love life & tragedy. Bulls everyday life as well as his baseball career kept us wanting more after each chapter. My son has requested a copy for Christmas which is a milestone in itself. And when we were through reading Bull Catcher my son said "I'm going to miss Bull", well so will I.