Chapters 7-8 Summary

Dutch, the team manager, calls Henry into his office one night, and asks him what is going on with Bruce. Dutch also wants to know why Bruce and Henry went to Bruce's parents' house. Henry claims that there is nothing going on with Bruce. Dutch is quite suspicious, but senses that Henry is not going to tell him the truth. Henry claims that he went to Minnesota to try to sell insurance to Aleck Olson, another ballplayer, and then he and Bruce went hunting. Dutch tells Henry that he will check with Aleck about that. Henry makes sure to tell Aleck the new version of the truth.

The season officially begins, and the Mammoths are doing well, winning most of their games. They are just about the only team in the league that year with a really solid, powerful set of...