Entry 8

Outfielders are always trying to spike people. What a spike means is to try to hit someone with the ball. According to Biddy that’s because they don’t play on the bases and they don’t know what it’s like to have a spike coming toward your face! When Biddy had batting trouble he asked Piper if he was ever afraid of batting and he said “I don't mind having a few knots on the side of my head because it made combing my hair interesting.” Biddy was thinking that he really didn’t need to hear that but it helped him with his problems because he was thinking it must not have hurt as bad as he thought if Piper liked getting hit. After that they had to go to a nonleague game against the Harlem globetrotters and Joe Bankhead was pitching.

Piper said that the barons were going to knock him from Birmingham all the way to Seattle, Washington. What I am saying there is they are going to hit the ball really far with his bad pitches.  Then make him wish he was playing for the house of David. The house of David was a white team. They all wore beards but they could play ball. The reason he sad that is because Joe Bankhead is one of the worst pitchers ever.  Piper told Biddy he didn't like playing against any team that did anything different because it wasn’t pure ball. His definition of pure ball is no weighted bats and no pills.