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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
Home run kid series volume 3
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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
Pub. Date
2006
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
Series
Comeback kids volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Feeling he doesn't belong with his foster parents, 12-year-old Nick Crandall also feels he shouldn't be catcher for the varsity baseball team. But Nick needs to prove himself wrong--that he does, indeed, belong.
Playing baseball was the one thing that made twelve-year-old Nick Crandall feel at home until he found acceptance with adoptive parents, but he faces a new struggle to fit in when he becomes the first seventh-grader ever to make the varsity...
Author
Language
English
Description
The author of the #1 "New York Times" bestseller "Heat" returns to America's favorite pastime of baseball and delivers a feel-good story that shows how love of the game is a common language fathers and sons speak.
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....
9) Heroine
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make a historic tournament run. Behind the plate is the only place she's ever felt comfortable, and the painkillers she's been prescribed can help her get there. The pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good. With a new circle of friends--fellow injured athletes, others with just time...
10) Mr. Strike Out
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
David is a great baseball pitcher, but he always strikes out at bat until he learns about Babe Ruth and the importance of practice.
11) Stealing home
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Joey is sure he will not get along with the exchange student from Nicaragua who is staying with his family for a year, but they find common ground on the baseball field.
Author
Series
Language
English
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
Black lagoon adventures volume 10
Pub. Date
[2011], ©2007
Language
English
Description
With everyone excited about baseball tryouts, Hubie hopes that practice and a new mitten nicknamed Grabber will help him make the team.
17) Shark summer
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"When a Hollywood film crew arrives on Martha's Vineyard with a mechanical shark and a youth film contest boasting a huge cash prize, disgraced pitcher Gayle Blue Streak Briar sees a chance to turn a bad season into the best summer ever. After recruiting aspiring cinematographer Elijah Jones and moody director Maddie Grey, Gayle and her crew set out to uncover the truth of the island's own phantom shark and win the prize money. But these unlikely...
19) Baseball blowup
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Malcolm loves baseball and science, but his teammates are not always pleased with the ideas he comes up with--until he uses science to come up with a winning pitch, the knuckleball.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 122
Language
English
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.
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