Booktalk: No doubt about it, Darcy Spillman lo-oves baseball. He talks baseball with his buddies everyday, reads biographies of ball players and hates it when the World Series is over because it means one thing: no baseball all winter. But now that Darcy is in junior high there's other stuff getting in the way of baseball: harder homework, cliques and a certain beautiful blonde named Danalda Chase. Darcy knows a lot about baseball but not much about girls. He thinks "getting to first base" means you've hit a single. Well, yeah, that is true, but not when we're talking about girls. Darcy needs a coach, someone to help him read the signals and not go down swinging. Because when it comes to girls, you never know when a spitball might be coming. Darcy definitely needs a game plan for GETTING TO FIRST BASE WITH DANALDA CHASE.