The Brooklyn Nine

The Brooklyn Nine                

        Felix Schneider is the fastest kid in Brooklyn. He was sent to America by his father to try and make money for the family in Germany.  The kids he plays baseball with make fun of him for being an immigrant.  I don’t think that that was nice of them because he is just trying to fit in.  Felix then goes with the Knickerbockers who were the baseball-playing firemen of the 1800’s into a fire.  I don’t think it was smart of him because the fire turned out being the largest fire in Brooklyn history.  At the same time Felix showed a lot of bravery going in to help them.  Despite losing his leg in an explosion he will always be a hero.  Louis Schneider who is Felix’s son is a member of the Union in the Civil War.  To give him something to remember him by his dad made a baseball out of his shoes that were burnt in the explosion.  The ball also had an S inscribed in it for Schneider.  For Louis I think it was a good memory because it reminded him of home and everything he loved, like baseball.  Louis finds a Confederate who is blind and thinks of taking him in as a prisoner of war.  If Louis did this it would be very mean because the guy just lost his sight so he has already had a bad day, I would just give him a break. Louis decides to do the right thing and let the troop go.  Before the part there ways they decide to make a trade. Louis gives him the baseball with the S because the Confederate could toss the ball and catch even with no sight.  Louis takes perhaps one of the nicest baseball bats he has ever seen.  This was a great idea from Louis because it is a way that they can remember each other by.  They had become pretty good friends in my eyes.  Lucky for both of them they were departed home the next for the Civil War had been won by the Union.  I would have been very happy for them.

                                          The Brooklyn Nine        

Arnold Schneider, the son of Louis, is a big King Kelly fan.  I don’t believe that King Kelly has done much good with his life because he gets paid a lot of money and spends most of it on drinks and a private butler.  Arnold, being the nice kid that I know he is, arranges for King Kelly to have a tryout with the Brooklyn baseball team.   Arnold, tired of his friends making fun of him for liking King Kelly, invites King Kelly to come play ball at their field called the Pig Field.  It was really nice of Kelly to show up to play with them because he could have been at a bar drinking or something but instead chose to play with Arnold and his friends instead.   Unfortunately Kelly does a horrible thing.  He skips the tryout that Arnold arranged for him and moves back to Boston.  But that wasn’t even the worst.  King Kelly sold Arnold’s bat that he lent him to pay off bar tabs.  Arnold wisely forgets about him, which is what I would have done as well.  Walter Snider is the next generation of Sniders.  Due to great prejudice against Jewish people, the family changed their last name to look more American from Schneider to Snider.  I think this is ridiculous because they are not even Jewish.  This kind of prejudice can pull a country apart as can racism.  At the Coney Island boardwalk one day, Walter meets a Cuban man, Joe ‘Cyclone’ Williams, who is an amazing pitcher.  His ability was being described as “nobody could touch him”.  However, when Joe went to Brooklyn to tryout for the baseball team, racism bears its ugly side.  The entire field makes mistakes on purpose so he can’t make the team.  This is horrible and I didn’t even realize that our country could be like this.  So, Joe ‘Cyclone’ Williams gets cut at the tryout.  I am really disappointed in learning about people behaving this way.