He has a baseball in his pocket but it is not the signed Babe Ruth one. The security guard is angry with them and leave. Cam and Eric are baffled because they were sure it was him. The trail the girl with the gym bag but it is not her either. They return to the park and notice the boy is still there. Some kids are playing catch and the boy they suspected went to fetch the ball for …show more content…
Babe Ruth is a famous and historic baseball player and students can get a good idea about how famous he was and still is. In the book Cam and Eric test each other with baseball statistics. You could pull a math lesson about graphs from this book. Have students look up Babe Ruth statistics and practice graph making. You could do a study about photographic memory and have students play some fun memory games. You could read the beginning of the book and then have students build evidence for who they think stole the ball. Why do they think that person took the ball. Students could write a piece about having something stolen from them or if they have ever stolen something and how they