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English
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Ethan "E.A." Allen lives in the rural Vermont village of Kingdom Common. Nine years later and after countless adventures, E.A. is a hotshot pitcher. Aided by Teddy and Cajun Stan the Baseball Man, E.A. ends up pitching for the nearly deflated and defunct Red Sox. In Mosher's ninth novel, one of the funniest and most heartfelt baseball stories in recent memory, the Boston Red Sox beat the Yankees to win their division, then go on to whip the Mets to...
3) The batboy
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Language
English
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It is every baseball kid's dream summer job: batboy for your hometown Major League team. Yet for fourteen year-old Brian, the job means more than just the chance to hang around his idols. Baseball was the job his father loved so much, in the end he couldn't leave it. Yet he could leave his family. Now Brian sees the job as the way to win back his father. There is no winning back some people, though. Just ask Hank Bishop?once the most popular player...
4) Calico Joe
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English
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In this novel, the careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it is what happens off the field that makes this story a classic.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Language
English
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When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
vii, 132 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Stephen King comes the haunting story of Blockade Billy , the greatest Major League baseball player to be erased from the game. Even the most die-hard baseball fans don't know the true story of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first--and only--player to have his existence completely removed from the record...
Author
Series
Home team novels volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Sixth grade is supposed to be the year that Jack Callahan would lead his team to a record-shattering season and the Little League World Series, but after the death of his brother he loses interest in baseball and only Cassie, star of the girls' softball team, seems to understand.
8) The natural
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Roy Hobbs, the protagonist of The Natural, makes the mistake of pronouncing aloud his dream: to be the best there ever was. Such hubris, of course, invites divine intervention, but the brilliance of Bernard Malamud's novel is the second chance it offers its hero, elevating him--and his story--into the realm of myth. (from Amazon.com)
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Series
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English
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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. Includes brief, illustrated biographies of female baseball players, historical note, glossary, and recommended reading.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged): illustrations; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Randy Riley is a science genius who loves baseball, but isn't very good at it. Riley needs to use both his interests to save his town from a giant fireball hurtling toward earth.
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English
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"Lupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues. She's also championed causes her whole young life. Some worthy ... like expanding the options for race on school tests beyond just a few bubbles. And some not so much...like complaining to the BBC about the length between Doctor Who seasons. Lupe needs an A in all her classes in order to meet her favorite pitcher, Fu Li Hernandez, who's Chinacan/Mexinese just like her. So when...
13) Dugout hero
Author
Series
Little Rhino volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
89 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Little Rhino goes down with an injury that forces him to sit out of games, he discovers he can still be a good teammate by helping his friends away from the action.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Daniel, Prince Wednesday, and Miss Elaina are playing at the park with Prince Tuesday. The group decides to play a game of animal ball, but Daniel can't seem to catch the ball. With some encouragement from Prince Tuesday, Daniel discovers that if he keeps trying, he will get better.
16) Baseball fever
Author
Publisher
Treasure Bay
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A boy who loves to play baseball is disappointed to get sick and miss the first game of the season, but his friends on the team do their best to keep hi filled in.
17) Shoeless Joe
Author
Publisher
RosettaBooks
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An Iowa farmer builds a baseball stadium in his cornfield, hoping his hero, Shoeless Joe Jackson, will play in it.
Author
Series
Little Rhino volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
88 pages, 12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Coach Ray has some exciting news! After a great season, the Mustangs have made it into a tournament. They get to travel to the capital and play with the best teams in the state. It's a huge honor and everyone is super excited to go. But then Rhino realizes he's going to have to sleep in a hotel, away from his brother and Grandpa James. Rhino's never slept someplace outside of this house before. If he's too nervous about the trip, how will he be...
19) Heat
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Unabridged
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.
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