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Author
Series
[Mickey Rawlings baseball story] volume 1
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p1997.
Language
English
Description
Troy Soos' entertaining whodunit hits a home run with a perfect blend of mayhem and early baseball lore! He takes you back to 1912 where the days are full of sunshine, players use homemade wooden bats, the legendary Ty Cobb captivates fans, and a young rookie stumbles into a web of danger and deceit. Reporting for his first day as a Boston Red Sox player, Mickey Rawlings discovers a faceless body in the empty stadium. When police name him as their...
4) Babe & me
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
With their ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe and his father have the opportunity to find out whether Babe Ruth really did call his shot when he hit that home run in the third game of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs.
5) Calico Joe
Author
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1973 Joe Castle was the boy wonder of baseball, the greatest rookie anyone had ever seen. The kid from Calico Rock, Arkansas, dazzled Cub fans as he hit home run after home run, politely tipping his hat to the crowd as he shattered all rookie records. Calico Joe quickly became the idol of every baseball fan in America, including Paul Tracey, the young son of a hard-partying and hard-throwing Mets pitcher. On the day that Warren Tracey...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Celebrate the unheralded people and stories that helped shape the game of baseball! Meet unsung pioneers, like John "Bud" Fowler, William Edward White, and brothers Moses Fleetwood Walker and Weld Walker, four African Americans who integrated white teams decades before Jackie Robinson.Discover unforgettable moments, like the time a 17-year old girl named Jackie Mtchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.Marvel at records. Did you know that Japanese...
7) Play ball
Author
Publisher
Follett
Pub. Date
c1978.
Language
English
Description
Interest and humor are generated with 58 words as two boys look for balls and equipment to play various games. There are unexpected and magical qualities to their play. Pale tans and yellows predominate in clever illustrations.
9) Heat
Author
Language
English
Description
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
10) The batboy
Author
Language
English
Description
Even though his mother feels baseball ruined her marriage to his father, she allows fourteen-year-old Brian to become a bat boy for the Detroit Tigers, who have just drafted his favorite player back onto the team.
11) Soar
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Moving to Hillcrest, Ohio, when his adoptive father accepts a temporary job, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, a heart transplant recipient, has sixty days to find a baseball team to coach.
12) Boys in control
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once again the Hatford brothers and the Mallory sisters find themselves pitted against each other when embarrassing pictures of the boys turn up in the girls' basement, and the boys try to figure out how to get them back.
15) Rivals
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Josh is thrilled when his team makes it to a national tournament in Cooperstown, but then spies suspicious activity in the tournament.
16) Baseball great
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
All twelve-year-old Josh wants to do is play baseball, but when his father, a minor league pitcher, signs him up for a youth championship team, Josh finds himself embroiled in a situation with potentially illegal consequences.
17) Camp Average
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Camp Average is a middle-grade novel that tells the story of a group of 11-year-old boys sharing Cabin 10 at a six-week summer sports camp for boys. The actual name of the place is Camp Avalon, but the kids call it Camp Average, because they never win at any sport. And that's the way they like it. But this summer, Winston, the new camp director doesn't like losing, and he's not about to start! Led by the main protagonist, Mack, and his best friend...
Author
Series
Scooby-Doo mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Abdo
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Scooby-Doo and the gang are called on to investigate a case involving a haunted baseball stadium.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Lupe Wong needs an A in all of her classes in order to meet her favorite baseball pitcher, but when square dancing is introduced in gym, it might just bring her demise.
"Lupe necesita una A en todas las clases para conocer a su lanzador favorito, Fu Li Hernández, un mexi-chino como ella. ¿Qué pasa cuando el baile de country llega al gimnasio? Lupe no se quedará con los brazos cruzados."--
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