TJ Barnes is back, playing with his crazy cats, T-Rex and Alaska, helping out in his parents' hardware store and goofing around with his best friend, Seymour. When Seymour announces that he has signed them both up for a football team, TJ fears the worst. Neither of them is huge or mean or able to tackle, catch, throw, run or kick a ball down a field, but Seymour is determined to be a star. With the help of a stack of library books, TJ starts to understand the game but it takes more than a few books to figure out what’s wrong with his best friend.<br>   <em>TJ and the Sports Fanatic</em> is the fourth of five books in a series.<br>Book one is <em>TJ and the Cats.</em><br>Book two is <em>TJ and the Haunted House.</em><br>Book three is <em>TJ and the Rockets.</em><br>Book five is <em> TJ and the Quiz Kids. </<em>