The morning sun of our boyhood

The Cubs are recruiting--recruiting--recruiting!

Ban Xiaosong really wanted to announce this news to the whole world.When Director An handed him the club recruitment application form, he couldn't believe his eyes. He read the application form over and over again, and then thanked Director An happily, and then ran away like flying New recruits are planned.

Early in the morning, as soon as Qing Cheng and Wu Tong entered the campus, they saw a crowd of people crowded in the area of ​​the bulletin board.The two walked over curiously, and a poster was pasted there. "Cubs recruiting"?

The moment Wu Tong saw the poster, milk spurted out of his mouth instantly, and Qingcheng was stunned.Wu Tong also privately posted the poster and walked towards the classroom aggressively.

"Ban Xiaosong, did you draw it?" Wu Tong handed him the poster in his hand.

"Oh? Why did you tear off the poster?" Ban Xiaosong stood up and took the poster with disgust, "It's still sticky."

"Is this a poster?" Qingcheng was shocked.

"Isn't this a poster?" After receiving Ban Xiaosong's reply, Qingcheng stopped talking and returned to her seat.

Wu Tong: "How dare you post such an ugly poster?"

Unconvinced, Ban Xiaosong showed it to Yin Ke who was at the side, and asked, "Yin Ke, Yin Ke, is this ugly?"

Yin Ke glanced at the poster and reluctantly said, "It's quite artistic."

Ban Xiaosong said triumphantly: "Look, it's quite artistic."

"You don't need the existing human resources, you have to draw by yourself." Wu Tong rolled his eyes at Yin Ke.

"Human resources?" Ban Xiaosong was taken aback, and then looked at Yin Ke.

Yin Ke put down the poster and said, "I can help you draw a poster. I am also a member of the baseball team."

"All right, all right, I'll leave the poster to him, and you can leave it alone." Wu Tong returned to his seat.

human Resources?In order to successfully recruit excellent players, Ban Xiaosong decided to fully mobilize his human resources.

Tao Xi walked into the classroom and said solemnly that the monthly exam was coming, and the teachers would use the self-study class to review and ask for their opinions.

Did any of your classmates enjoy class?Of course not, so everyone unanimously "don't want to". The result of "don't want to" is to change it to physical education.

I have to say that Tao Xi is still very scheming.But, there is no way, how can we fight against the students in Class [-] of Senior High without a dim sum machine?

In this way, they practiced a class of long-distance running.

"Qingcheng, Qingcheng." Ban Xiaosong chased after him.

"Is there something wrong? Shouldn't you be at the recruiting site right now?" Qingcheng looked at the panting Ban Xiaosong, puzzled.

"Come to find you, hurry up, follow me."

"Hey, wait a minute, wouldn't it be enough for the Cubs to recruit just the three of you? Why do you want to bring me together? Why, make up four people and play mahjong?"

"What and what? Have you forgotten, we are a team now, and you have agreed to be our baseball team's assistant coach, so you must come with me."

"I..." Before Qingcheng could refute, Ban Xiaosong dragged her away.

The recruiting auditorium was full of people, which was inseparable from Ban Xiaosong's careful publicity and planning beforehand.He personally designed the recruiting brochure, and encouraged Wu Tong and Yin Ke to "sell their looks", and even drew Qingcheng together.After all, Wu Tong and Yin Ke are both boys, and they must attract girls. If Qingcheng is not brought in, then the Cubs will have a beautiful scene.

As the saying goes, one thing lowers one thing, and now Wu Tong is almost sure: Ban Xiaosong is a living treasure sent by heaven to live in him!For some reason, I was dressed in a kangaroo costume by this clown, dressed as a mascot, and took photos with the long queue of girls in front of the teaching building; while Yin Ke was beside me, giving hair to another long queue of girls. Leaflets; because there are almost all girls here, Qingcheng was assigned another task by Ban Xiaosong—go out of the crowd and distribute leaflets to boys in other places to attract them.Qingcheng is helpless.

Ban Xiaosong guides Yin Ke from time to time: "Yin Ke, smile more gently, open the corners of your mouth a little more, and show your dimples... If there are too many, close it a little more, yes, just like this, keep it!" Yin Ke Ke smiled softly and helplessly.

In contrast, Wu Tong's situation is much worse. Wearing a kangaroo suit, he only showed a handsome face, causing passers-by to whisper: "Is that really Wu Tong? It's the school from which he was transferred. Grass?" Wu Tong could only look up at the sky, with a look of lovelessness on his face.

Ban Xiaosong looked at the crowd outside the recruiting auditorium, and then at the two handsome men and a beautiful woman not far away, he was very pleased. Although there were more girls than boys in the queue, they could bring the flyers to the boys in the same class ah!This is called "Take care of people first, and care of heart depends on appearance"!

After the recruiting activity ended, the four of them were exhausted, Wu Tong sat on the ground, Ban Xiaosong squatted, Yin Ke and Qing Cheng leaned against the table.

"My face is full of smiles." Ban Xiaosong rubbed his face. "Qingcheng, is your face smiling too, come and let me rub it for you."

Qingcheng leaned back subconsciously, and Yin Ke blocked Ban Xiaosong's hand with his own hand.

It was finally over, the four of them closed the booth, tidied up the scene, and returned to the class.

Ban Xiaosong is very proud of his management experience.But there was one more thing he didn't understand.

He sat in Tan Yaoyao's seat and asked Qingcheng: "Qingcheng, why do you say that, as soon as Li Zi heard that Yin Ke was 'handpicked' by Tao Xi to join the baseball team, she was full of love and agreed to be the manager of the baseball team without hesitation. "

Qingcheng's expression seemed to have discovered some big secret, and he immediately retracted it: "Maybe, Li Zi appreciates Yin Ke. After all, Yin Ke is all-round and handsome, and many girls appreciate him."

Ban Xiaosong's expression was still puzzled, Qingcheng leaned over and asked in a low voice: "You are not jealous, are you?"

Ban Xiaosong immediately came back to his senses, and stammered: "No, no, how, how is it possible."

Qingcheng smiled half-smile: "Then why are you stuttering?"

"I……"

At this time, Li Zi walked up to Ban Xiaosong with the list and knocked on the table.Ban Xiaosong raised his head suspiciously. "The number of applicants has been counted. There are five—ten—people!" Ban Xiaosong regained his energy and danced.Li Zi knocked on the table helplessly, and continued, "But we can't recruit all these people, we have to screen. Tomorrow, besides Teacher Tao, you, Wu Tong, and Yin Ke should all be judges."

Ban Xiaosong said a bit embarrassed: "Wu Tong will go, but I'm not sure if Yin Ke can bring him..."

Li Zi interrupted him directly: "No, Yin Ke must come, we can't do without him."

Ban Xiaosong asked back: "Why not?"

Li Zi spread out his hands: "Yin Ke is good at data analysis, and he is very accurate in judging people. He is the most suitable judge. I will leave Wu Tong and Yin Ke to you, and I will invite Teacher Tao." After finishing speaking, Li Zi Coolly turned around and left.

At this time, Yin Ke came over.Ban Xiaosong rushed to Yin Ke with a stride. "Tomorrow, after class, the baseball team has an interview. Can you be a judge?"

Yin Ke shook his head regretfully: "Sorry, I have to go home early."

"Yin Ke, you are a member of the baseball team, you have to..."

Qingcheng watched Yin Ke and Xiaosong from the side, and came forward to make a rescue: "Xiaosong, don't make things difficult for Yin Ke, I'll go for him."

"Thank you." Yin Ke walked out of the classroom with a few books.

After all, Qingcheng is also a proper university bully, and she is also very good at data analysis.

Ban Xiaosong stared blankly at his back, confused.Wu Tong also frowned and looked at Yin Ke's back.

In the afternoon of the second day, Tao Xi asked Li Zi to divide the boys who came to sign up into groups of 10. The first level was body measurement; the second level was an interview; the third level was a physical fitness test.

Tao Xi is not as optimistic as Ban Xiaosong, he clearly knows the distance between the strength of the old Cubs team and professional teams, no, it is simply a gap.Of course, that team was just a grass-roots team that was put together hastily when he was absent-minded.This time, even with careful selection, will the new Cubs really be able to perform miracles?

Arm strength is especially important for pitchers and hitters. Baseball players do not have as much body shape as other ball games. Many baseball players are overweight.Ban Xiaosong, Wu Tong and Yin Ke are all tall young men. This time, Tao Xi plans to recruit a few strong players.

As soon as he thought of this, Tao Xi's eyes were attracted by the young man standing in front of Wu Tong's table.The young man was tall and handsome, with his hands on Wu Tong's interview table, he said in a loud voice, "Meet you again!"

Wu Tong has always been a good hand at irritating people, the more anxious others are, the quieter he is; the more fierce others are, the more lazy he is.At this moment, he looked like he was about to fall asleep. He barely raised his eyelids and said to the boy in front of him, "Oh, you."

The boy's name was Lu Tong, he was in Class One (Fourth) of Senior High, and he was also a well-known figure in Chang County, because he was handsome, and because he was well-dressed and fashionable.Ever since Wu Tong transferred to Changjun, he has robbed him of a lot of the limelight, and he has been brooding about it. Once, he even pestered Wu Tong to engage in a "School Grass Contest". Of course, it ended in failure, but it seems He is not convinced.

Lu Tong turned his head to look at the girls watching outside the auditorium, and deliberately amplified his voice and said, "I didn't lose to you in the school grass competition last time, but to an accident. This time I must join the Cubs team , compete with you on the baseball field!"

Wu Tong didn't bother to talk nonsense with him at all, and stretched out his hand: "Registration form."

"What registration form?"

"Registration requires a registration form, you didn't fill it out?"

"Ah..." Lu Tong remembered, "I filled it out and put it in the classroom. I'll go get it now!"

After he finished speaking, he turned around and ran away. Wu Tong shrugged helplessly, and said to Ban Xiaosong: "If he enters the Cubs team, you will not be the top two."

Tao Xi looked at Lu Tong's running away figure, thoughtful.

At this time, they heard a timid voice asking: "Excuse me... that... can I sign up for the baseball team?" They all looked at the place where the voice came from, and saw Xue Tie standing in an inconspicuous corner, bowing his head. It seems that it took a long time for him to ask such a question.

Ban Xiaosong stepped forward and enthusiastically pulled Xue Tie over: "Of course! Come on, let me measure your body!" He just took out the soft ruler, but was stopped by Tao Xi, who said to everyone: "Xue Tie is The secret weapon of our Cubs team, no need to go through selection, just pass the test!"

Ban Xiaosong glanced at Tao Xi, understood immediately, smiled and patted Xue Tie on the shoulder: "Welcome to join!"

Xue Tie's face was flushed with excitement, and he said repeatedly: "That...Teacher Tao, Xiao Song, there is a typo in the recruiting notice."

"Where?" Ban Xiaosong asked curiously.

"Here—wait for it, it's finished." Xue Tie pointed to the recruiting notice posted on the wall.

"Xue Tie, you are so careful! You can even see such a small difference! Great, the baseball team needs such careful people!" Ban Xiaosong praised, "By the way, everyone in our baseball team You have to have your own nickname, since you are as careful as a crumb, why not just reverse your name and call you 'Iron Filing'!"

At this moment, another voice came in: "Here, my registration form!"

It was Lu Tong, who brought back the registration form from the classroom.

Ban Xiaosong looked at his watch in disbelief: "The teaching building is more than 300 meters away from the auditorium, and the first grade is on the fourth floor. You came back in less than 3 minutes?"

Lu Tong proudly puffed out his chest: "I stopped on the way and looked in the mirror, otherwise I could have gone faster!"

Wu Tong, Ban Xiaosong and Tao Xi looked at each other, feeling excited about finding a treasure.

Another boy in the team caught Tao Xi's attention.He reminded everyone to look at the different boy who was staring at the sky in a daze.It is said that he is different, one is because he is a bit shorter than everyone else, obviously not a high school student; the other is because he is carrying a bat, and he is the only one in the audience who came to the interview with a bat.

Tao Xi called out to the boy, "Hey, you, yes, it's you, come here."

The boy blinked his big eyes, and the old god came over from the ground.

Tao Xi asked, "What's your name?"

"Feng Chengcheng."

"Feng Chengcheng? Is there Xu Wenqiang?" Ban Xiaosong buried his head under the table and asked Qingcheng who was sitting next to him, in exchange for her fake smile.

"Are you a high school student?"

"No, I'm in the third (fourth) class of junior high." Feng Chengcheng said, still looking like "I'm not afraid".

"The recruiting notice says that only high school students can apply, didn't you notice?"

"Attention."

"You still come after paying attention?" Tao Xi felt that it was a bit difficult to communicate with this child, like squeezing toothpaste, squeeze out a little.

To his last question, Feng Chengcheng's answer was: "Throw something over here."

Now Tao Xi's brain circuit was completely messed up: "Son, what do you mean?"

"Throw something over here!" Feng Chengcheng was surprised, this coach can't understand Chinese?

"What?" Tao Xi lost to him.

"Anything." Tao Xi looked around the table, picked up a pen, and threw it at Feng Chengcheng tentatively.

"Crack!" The ballpoint pen was hit by Feng Chengcheng's bat and landed on the open space of the auditorium.

Now the people sitting behind the table were all excited, and all kinds of things greeted Feng Chengcheng: paper balls, wallets, basketballs found in the corner of the auditorium... Without exception, they were all hit by Feng Chengcheng. to the clearing.

Qingcheng and Wu Tong's eyes widened.Ban Xiaosong's mouth opened into an "O" shape: "Wow, amazing!"

Tao Xi was so excited that he uttered obscenities: "Damn! Son, how did you practice?"

Feng Chengcheng was very calm: "What are you practicing? I haven't practiced before."

"Then how on earth did you do it?"

"Oh, you mean to hit things? I have been playing since I was a child. I used twigs when I was a child, then I used a feather duster, and then I used a bat. I can hit whatever I see. I can still hit watermelons. I will show you next time."

"Come on! Stop playing watermelon, you were admitted as an exception!" Tao Xi's grin was bigger than watermelon.

After the interview, all the tasks were handed over to Qingcheng.She sorted out the information of all the interviewees and the data they tested, evaluated and analyzed the comprehensive ability, conducted data analysis, and finally finished the job perfectly.

The recruiting of the Cubs went smoothly, except for "Scud" Lu Tong, "Iron Filing" Xue Tie, "Alien" Feng Chengcheng, "Clairvoyance" Tan Yaoyao... and "Cannonball" Wu Tong, "Computer" Yin Ke Together with "Magic Wand" Ban Xiaosong, a total of 16 players were recruited.Coupled with the "professional strength expert" Tao Xi as the coach, "Baseball Encyclopedia" Xia Qingcheng as the assistant coach, and the conscientious and responsible Li Zi as the manager, the new journey of the Cubs has officially started!

Today everyone gathered happily on the playground for the first time, giving each other nicknames, and a sense of collective belonging spontaneously emerged.The next step is the particularly important link - location allocation.

Ban Xiaosong wanted to be a pitcher. Tao Xi asked him why, and he replied: "Because I think pitchers need to be handsome."

"Then do you think you are handsome?"

"My mother also said I was handsome."

"That's what she lied to you."

Ban Xiaosong lost face.

"The pitcher is a very critical position, and it should be filled by the best pitcher on the team. Do you think you are the most suitable?"

Ban Xiaosong thought for a while, then shook his head objectively: "This position is still for Wu Tong."

Tao Xi then asked: "Then do you think Wu Tong is handsome or you?"

Ban Xiaosong said confidently: "I'm handsome." Wu Tong looked disdainful.

Tao Xi replied: "Very good, very self-aware."

Wu Tong's expression brightened.

Either way, the pitcher is set.

Ban Xiaosong said again: "Then do I want to be a catcher?"

Unexpectedly, Tao Xi shook his head and said, "I already have someone to choose a catcher. Yin Ke?" He looked at Yin Ke, but the other party frowned and said, "Coach, I don't want to be a catcher, I want to be an outfielder .Because the outfielders are the most leisurely and don’t need too complicated skills. They only need to run occasionally and do basic passing and catching, so there are few items to train. My training time is limited and I can’t play important roles. The position. After rational analysis, I think I am more suitable for the position of outfielder."

His words only brought Tao Xi a mysterious smile: "Yin Ke, look at you, how suitable you are to be a catcher!"

Ban Xiaosong had a puzzled expression on his face.Yin Ke also froze for a moment, but quickly regained his composure.

Tao Xi explained: "The catcher, as the only one of the defenders who faces everyone, is like a general on the battlefield, directing the entire defense. There are three points that are particularly important. First, the catcher needs to understand the habitual hitting style of the opponent's batter , Common placements, etc., we must accurately judge the situation of the audience. What Yin Ke said just now has proved that his analytical ability is very strong. Second, the catcher needs extraordinary concentration to safely catch every pitcher. The ball may be due to long-term drawing. Yin Ke can sit still and has a strong concentration. Third, the catcher needs to be calm and stable. Hearing my arrangement just now, Yin Ke felt You are dissatisfied, but your face is still calm. Combining these three points, you are the best catcher candidate."

Yin Ke wanted to argue: "Coach, I don't have that much time for training..." Tao Xi waved his hand, "Needless to say, you will be the No. [-] catcher of the Cubs from today on."

Yin Ke wanted to struggle again, but after being slapped by Tao Xi, he no longer insisted on his own opinion. After all, deep down in his heart, he was also full of yearning for the position of catcher.

Suddenly, Joule said a word: "What is an outfielder?"

Tao Xi was speechless, and said to Ban Xiaosong: "Ban Xiaosong, why do you recruit even laymen who don't know what an outfielder is?" He looked at Qingcheng again, "Xia Qingcheng, come and teach them what baseball and baseball are. Contest."

"Huh? Why me? Aren't you the coach?"

Tao Xi asked back: "Aren't you a teaching assistant? Why do you want to come, hurry up." After speaking, Tao Xi turned to greet a beautiful sister who was sitting in the distance, Qingcheng looked at Tao Xi, and was picking up girls again.

Qingcheng stepped forward and said to the Cubs: "Baseball is different from basketball and football in selecting players. The first element of a baseball player is brains. There are more than ten kinds of tactics commonly used on the baseball field. To understand a baseball game thoroughly, it is almost equal to Thoroughly understand a piece of "Sun Tzu's Art of War". So baseball is a psychological warfare, and baseball players must have the mind to hide their own psychology and guess the psychology of others. In addition to brains, flexibility and the ability to run at variable speeds are also very important. Running bases is It is a very physically demanding thing. According to statistics, in every baseball game, each team member has to run an average of 10 kilometers back and forth.”

"Usually, a baseball team has several positions: pitcher, catcher, first baseman, second baseman, third baseman, shortstop, left, center, right fielder, etc., and each game, the nine players will form the defense against every ball the offense throws."

The members of the baseball team were stunned by Qingcheng's remark. This is another person who is good at data analysis.It is very happy to think about a team with two people who are good at data analysis.Tao Xi looked at Qingcheng with satisfaction, very good, this is the teaching assistant he wanted.

Ban Xiaosong lost his temper: "Coach, if you don't let me be a pitcher or a catcher, then you want me to be a singer?"

"Okay."

"Okay, okay, coach, what am I supposed to do?"

Tao Xi approached him mysteriously: "Don't you think, you are especially suitable to be a shortstop?"

"Shortstop?" Ban Xiaosong said to himself while thinking, "Shortstop must have strong arms, run fast, be able to cooperate, and must have a clear mind and strong overall quality, and I have a handsome face . Coach, you are too discerning!" In this way, Tao Xi found the right position for each player.Through this process, he also completely convinced the whole team and made all the players believe that their coach not only has a deep understanding of baseball, but more importantly, he understands and appreciates every player!

In a sense, the coach's hand is a magic hand, a touchstone hand!