Tony and Me by Alfred Slote

While I would love to show the actual cover of the book, this could not be found on the internet because the book as been out of print for years. I read Tony and Me when I was in sixth grade and the story has stuck all these years. Have you ever moved away from your "perfect" home to a new place and tried to find new friends and a team. Bill was on a winning baseball team in California, but here in Michigan, he gets stuck with a losing one. All it seems to do is rain. But when he meets Tony, life is looking up. But Tony has a problem behavior that gets Bill in trouble too. Does being great in sports as Tony really makes up for doing wrong in life outside of baseball? What does a true friend do when the chips are down? Would you do as Bill did or did Bill take the easy way out? Let me know after you finish the story.