Mac Dougan's A Pitch In Time

What would you do if you went back in time to 1864? Would you want to stay or go back home? Mac Dougan, the main character in the historical fiction book A Pitch In Time chose to stay for a while then go back home to 2005. This is a slow moving book that gives a lot of details about standing up for yourself, I would recommend this to people who like historical fiction and sports and for ages 10-12. When Mac moved from Georgia to Michigan, he tumbled off of his bike and woke up in the spring of 1864 during the civil war. This was an event in his life that he will never be able to forget. Mac was a baseball player and since he was, he tried out for the baseball team. One of the town bullies Tommy, was the first to make Mac feel like …show more content…
One of the ways was when the coach at baseball yelled at Mac during practice, after getting yelled at Mac hit 2 home runs with a old bat. That impressed the coach and he got out in a better position. Another way that it was shown was when Mac was scared to climb the water tower and Tommy was bullying him calling him a chicken for not climbing it, soon enough Mac proved him wrong and leaved the town bully with no other mean stuff to say. The next way standing up for yourself showed was when Mac's mom knew that he was getting bullied from kids and Tommy so she tried encouraging him to stand up for himself the next day. And the next day, that's exactly what happened and showed that he wasn't going to stand back and let them pick him apart. I think that it's important to stand up for yourself because then you can show people that you won't let them be mean to you by calling you names and things like that. Just like Mac did going into this, he was shy and lacked self esteem but once he stood up for himself he wasn't afraid to show that he wasn't going to be …show more content…
This was a very slow moving book that required a lot of patients for people like me. I thought I would like this book because it sounded good but it wasn't as I expected it to be, it didn't suck me in like the other books that I've read. Some good things about the book was that it gave us a perspective on things on what it would be like to go back in time and have an accent that made kids tease you and other things like that. Even thought this was still a good book, it just wasn't for me since I don't like historical