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Atheneum Hardcover, 11th printing 1985 with 172 pages. Written and Illustrated by Konigsburg. The real name of the Little League team was the B'nai B'rith, but everyone called them the B'nai Bagels. There manager was Bessie Setzer, but everyone called her Mother Bagel, and the team grew to love her and even Spencer, Brother Bagel, their coach. Which was fine for everyone but Mark Setzer. For him i... More

Atheneum Hardcover, 11th printing 1985 with 172 pages. Written and Illustrated by Konigsburg. The real name of the Little League team was the B'nai B'rith, but everyone called them the B'nai Bagels. There manager was Bessie Setzer, but everyone called her Mother Bagel, and the team grew to love her and even Spencer, Brother Bagel, their coach. Which was fine for everyone but Mark Setzer. For him it made problems. Because with a mother as manager and a brother as coach, he felt he had lost his right to be awful on the field and had gained a lot of sticky situations. Then, in additon to worrying about his performance on the baseball team, he had to worry about his performance at his Bar Mitzvah and about his friend, Hersch, who had moved to another part of town and found another best friend.

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