Fun Facts about "The Dogs Who Play Baseball"
The author, Thomas Louis Carroll, had a white Labrador named Chester, who was terrific at baseball. "He taught me that dogs really can play baseball."
Some of the dogs in the book have names like their breeds, such as Bull the Bulldog and Bernie the Bernese Mountain Dog.
There are pure breed dogs in this book, a Bulldog, a Scottish Terrier, a German Shepherd, and also a mutt, who plays shortstop.
Many readers have similar stories about their dogs growing up and playing baseball or some other sport. If you have a story, send it in.
Louie and Sally's baseball team is a co-ed baseball team. The team made up of dogs, the Bronx Barkers, is also a co-ed team, with both boy and girl dogs.
The author went to school at Riverdale, not far from Van Cortland Park in the Bronx, where the story begins.
Chester's home run at the end of the book just may be based on another home run in the World Series. Maybe you can guess which one it was.
Dogs really do amazing things, such as learning to be a seeing eye dog or catching a frisbee at fifty yards. So is it really so hard to believe that they can learn to play baseball?