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Melonhead
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Katy Kelly |
DANNY'S TALL AND skinny. Even though he's not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. A 95 mph fastball, but the boy's not ev… |
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The case of the stinky socks
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Lewis B. Montgomery |
Detectives-in-training Milo and Jazz join forces to tackle their first big case--finding out who stole the lucky socks from the high school baseball team's star pitcher. |
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Boys in control
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor |
Play ball! That's what the sixth-grade Buckman Badgers baseball team plans on doing. Eddie Malloy and Jake Hatford hope to lead their team to the championship game the last Saturday in May. But due t… |
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No-hitter
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Clair Bee |
Chip's summer plans change when State is selected to represent the United States in the college baseball series with two of Japan's finest teams, and he soon finds himself helping a Japanese college … |
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Ray & me
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Dan Gutman |
The ball hit me. It sounded like a bomb going off in my head. Everything went dark. The last thing I remember was hearing somebody yell, "Call 911!"When Stosh gets hit in the head with a baseball, he… |
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The Home Run Mystery
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Gertrude Chandler Warner |
The Aldens discover that one of Pikesville's little league coaches has been cheating all season, which is somehow related to a plan to raze the town's historic baseball field. |
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Bats at the ballgame
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Brian Lies |
Two teams of bats play an exciting nighttime baseball game. |
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Mayfield Crossing
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Vaunda Micheaux Nelson |
When the school in Mayfield Crossing is closed, the students are sent to larger schools, where the black children encounter racial prejudice for the first time. Only baseball seems a possibility for … |
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Joey Pigza loses control
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Jack Gantos |
When Joey Pigza meets his dad, Carter, for the first time in years, he meets a grownup version of his old hyperactive self -- the way he was before his stint in special ed, the way he was before he g… |
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Snow in August
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Pete Hamill |
In Brooklyn in the late 1940s, adolescent Michael Devlin is a dutiful son to his widowed mother and a conscientious altar boy at the parish church. One day, he meets Rabbi Judah Hirsch, a chance enco… |
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Power at the plate
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Scott Ciencin |
Luke Thorson is a good baseball player and a good student, but he is not as popular as his older half-brother Jake who is the team's captain and power hitter--can the two put aside their rivalry and … |
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Eliot Asinof and the truth of the game
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William Farina |
"The late Eliot Asinof (1919-2008), renowned author of Eight Men Out, on which the movie version was later based, also wrote 14 other full length books, including 4 more on baseball. In addition, he … |
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Batter up, SpongeBob!
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David Lewman |
Remembering happy days playing T-ball, SpongeBob is eager to join his dad's team--until he finds out they're playing real baseball! Can he hit a home run and make his dad proud? |
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The 823rd hit
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Kurtis Scaletta |
To keep Teddy "Bear" Larrabee happy and slugging, Chad the bat boy has to figure out what a crabby fan would be willing to trade for Teddy's lucky homerun ball. |
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The Wrigley riddle
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David A. Kelly |
During a visit to the Chicago Cubs' Wrigley field, cousins Mike and Kate investigate why someone has been tampering with the famous ivy vines growing on the outfield walls. Includes historical note. |
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Heat
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Mike Lupica |
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… |
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Hooray for the Dandelion Warriors!
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Bill Cosby |
Little Bill and his teammates are excited to begin baseball practice, but they cannot agree on the team name. |
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What you always wanted
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Kristin Rae |
Theater geek Maddie's dream guy has to live up to the grace and romance of classic Hollywood heartthrobs, especially the song-and-dance man Gene Kelly, so does Jesse Morales, her charming new neighbo… |
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Hardball
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Steven Barwin |
Griffin's intent to win a baseball scholarship is put on hold when he must prove his cousin innocent of using steroids. |
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Flat Stanley at bat
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Lori Haskins Houran |
Flat Stanley finds him trying out for the baseball team and outwitting the best players until the fairness of his "flat-vantage" is called into question. |
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