- A policeman's son searches for a suitable subject for an essay about an important person.
- Eight year old Billy Reilly is trying to find someone important to write about for an essay contest on a great person. The contest is sponsored by a sports shop, with a baseball glove as the winning prize. In a discussion while Billy is trying to think about who to write, the local librarian makes Billy expand his search from the types of people who are generally written about in books, to people that Billy may encounter every day that do important things. Regardless, Billy still has troubles finding a subject. It isn't until an incident that happens to him during a pickup baseball game in a back lot and a seemingly unrelated discussion with his policeman father at home later that day that makes Billy choose his subject, and view that person in a different light than he has done before. Those incidents in combination also make Billy change his focus from trying to win a baseball glove to highlighting what he sees and what he hopes others will see through his essay as the greatness of this person.—Huggo
- Billy Reilly, the young son of a policeman, wants to enter a contest that offers a baseball glove for the best essay on an important person. As Billy is in the library, struggling to come up with an idea, a man suggests that he look around him instead of looking in books. Later, when Billy is playing ball with his friends, he accidentally breaks a window. Eventually this helps him learn a lesson that also gives him an idea for his essay.—Snow Leopard
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