Finding Buck McHenry

The next book I would like to talk about is Finding Buck McHenry. This book links cultures together and tries to how what diversity used to be, nonexistent. In the book a young boy, Jason is cut from his baseball team. he loves baseball and is crushed by the cut. he gets a idea to start his own team  and begins to assemble players. besides the other kids who got cut Jason befriends Kim who also wishes to play. While this is going on Jason befriends the gray hair African American janitor Buck MacHenry. Buck begins to help in coaching the kids and brings in his flame throwing grandson Aaron to play on the team and get Aaron over the crash that took the lives of his parents. While teaching them baseball, Jason a avid baseball card collector finds  Negro League baseball card of a former player named Buck Mchenry who shares a resemblance with Buck Machenry, could they be one in the same? Buck does have a lot of Negro League stories and he knows a lot about the segregation they felt throughout the playing days. In the end the characters find out who their coach really is and they learn about what it was like back when segregation was everywhere. This book uses baseball to tackle real issues that can attract the young reader and teach them at the same time.