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1) 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.
Author
Series
Gabby Garcia's ultimate playbook volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her school is shut down due to an asbestos problem, all-star pitcher Gabby Garcia is sent to an upscale private school that already has a star pitcher, and to make matters worse, she has trouble making friends and finding her place.
Author
Series
Home run kid series volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
After badly spraining his ankle just before the summer baseball season begins, Sylvester Coddmyer III meets a mysterious ex-ballplayer named Charlie Comet who helps him compensate for the injury by learning to switch-hit.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 122
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Aldens help out at a minor league stadium and investigate when it appears someone in the ballpark is stealing the home team pitcher's signals and relaying them to the batters of the other team.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dani and Eric have been best friends since Dani moved next door in second grade. Until one summer when everything changes. Did Eric cause the accident that leaves Dani unable to do the one thing in the world she most cares about? The question plagues him, and he will do anything to get answers about the explosion that injured her. But Dani is hurting too much to want Eric to pursue the truth-she just wants to shut him out and move on. Besides, Eric...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
While covering baseball's World Series between the Washington Nationals and the Boston Red Sox, teenage sports reporters Stevie and Susan Carol investigate a rookie pitcher whose evasive answers during an interview reveal more than a few contradictions in his life story.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
57 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mudders' catcher Rudy Calhoun is having a bad season behind the plate until, at a yard sale, he buys a used catcher's mask that greatly improves his playing.
13) Mouse practice
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
[30] pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Monk the little mouse learns from his parents that practice is the way to succeed--whether it is in playing baseball or in playing music.
14) Lucky Luis
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Luis is convinced that he will not perform well on the baseball field without following his unique pre-game ritual.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
147 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Earl Grubb's Pool Supplies plays Northeast Gas & Electric in the Little League championship game, while Sam, who has cancer and is in a wheelchair, has to call the play-by-play instead of participating in the game.
Author
Series
Home run kid series volume 1
Language
English
Description
A boy becomes a phenomenal baseball player one summer when a mysterious stranger resembling Babe Ruth befriends him.
Author
Publisher
Gulliver Books/Harcourt Inc
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
[29] pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Young Amy helps her mother to get a job as a player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League while Amy's father is serving in the Army during World War II.
19) Free baseball
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
152 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Angry with his mother for having too little time for him, eleven-year-old Felix takes advantage of an opportunity to become bat boy for a minor league baseball team, hoping to someday be like his father, a famous Cuban outfielder. Includes glossaries of baseball terms and Spanish words and phrases.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
276 pages, 36 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1957, inspired by what she is learning about civil rights and armed with knowledge of female ball players, ten-year-old Katy Gordon fights to be allowed to play Little League baseball.
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