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wants!” said Ashley, stamping her foot. “You can’t hit the ball,” she reminded Roger. “You ought to be glad if Molly can.”
    “I never read in any rules that it was illegal to use a tennis racket to hit the ball,” said Jody. “Have you, Mr. Peters?”

    Mr. Peters had to admit he had not read that you could
not
use a tennis racket.
    No one had. Mr. Duff finally threw the ball, and Molly hit it with her fat bat! The first time she tried! It went high and it went far! It flew over the trees and out of the park! Molly threw down her fat bat and ran around the bases.
    Tim scored and Lisa scored and Tracy scored! Then Molly ran across home plate, and the Pee Wees had won the game!
    “Molly, Molly, she’s our man!” chanted the Pee Wees.
    Jody’s dad boosted Molly up on his shoulders and carried her off the field while everyone whistled and shouted and clapped.
    “You won the game for us!” said Jody. “That was really good thinking.”
    Jody was such a good friend! He had helped her win. It didn’t matter as muchto her, now that she wasn’t handicapped too. She didn’t need a wheelchair to get attention. She was a hero without wheels! It felt good.
    Even Roger acted pleased, thought Molly. But he did remind her that he still thought it was illegal.
    “I think Molly ought to get a tennis badge, as well as a baseball badge!” said Jody, laughing.
    Dear Jody! What a good friend!
    Everyone went back to Mrs. Peters’s house. She and Mr. Peters and the Stones served coffee and milk and fruit juice and snacks to everyone there. Then Mrs. Peters rapped on the table and held up the badges.
    “I think every one of the Pee Wees deserves a badge. Everyone has a scrapbook and most of you hit the ball.”
    When there was some booing, she added, “You all did as well as you could.And the Pee Wees definitely won the game.”
    Mrs. Peters called the names of each Pee Wee, and pinned the baseball badge on each of their shirts. It was red, and it had a thin bat on it. Beside the bat was a ball.
    “There’s yarn in that ball,” said Molly when she got her badge.
    The Pee Wees laughed. Except Jody.
    “She’s right,” he said. “Baseballs are filled with yarn, and covered with real leather.”
    “Molly and Jody have really done a lot of work,” said Mrs. Peters. “They both know a lot about baseball!”
    Molly felt warm and good all over. She had hit the ball. Even if it was with a fat bat instead of a thin bat. Jody was her friend. And she had the biggest scrapbook of all the Pee Wees.
    There was only one thing that still botheredher. And that was Baby Ruth. Molly had to find out how a little baby girl named after a candy bar could hit 714 home runs!
    She waved her hand to ask Mrs. Peters. As she was waving it, Brett Brady came up to her. She had not even known he was there!
    “Congratulations,” he said to her. “You were a regular Babe Ruth out there today. You know, he was a hero too. He played with the New York Yankees for fifteen years!”
    He?
thought Molly. Brett called Baby Ruth
he!
How could a man be called Ruth?
    “There won’t be another like the old Babe,” Brett went on. “But you were close. Maybe we should name a candy bar after you! The Babe-Duff bar!”
    “Molly?” said Mrs. Peters. “Did you have a question?”

    Molly didn’t realize her hand was still up!
    “No,” she said. “Not anymore.”
    So Ruth wasn’t a baby after all. And she wasn’t a girl and she wasn’t named after a candy bar! The candy bar was named after her!
    Rat’s knees! You learned something new every single day when you were a Pee Wee Scout!

Pee Wee Scout Song
    (to the tune of
“Old MacDonald Had a Farm”)
    Scouts are helpers, Scouts have fun,
    Pee Wee, Pee Wee Scouts!
    We sing and play when work is done,
    Pee Wee, Pee Wee Scouts!
    With a good deed here,
    And an errand there,
    Here a hand, there a hand,
    Everywhere a good hand.
    Scouts are helpers, Scouts have fun,
    Pee Wee, Pee Wee Scouts!

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