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Classroom Baseball Speech

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It’s sixth grade English; our teacher, Mrs. Kennedy, is diagramming sentences on the chalkboard. It’s time for another game of classroom baseball. The baseball is two millimeters in diameter. Made from a small piece of paper and spit. The bat is made of graphite surrounded by yellow lacquered cedar wood topped with a pink rubber eraser. Hey batter, batter. The student’s desk are circled around the perimeter of the room. Christy’s first in the lineup and sits up straight in her desk stepping up to the plate. Beckie pitches the spit wad ball and whoosh it’s a first-pitch strike, the wad of paper now lies in the center point of the room. The pitcher wads another ball and the batter readies herself. Here comes pitch number two. Ping,

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