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Clutch Hitter
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Clair Bee |
While playing baseball for the steel company where he works during the summer, high school star athlete Chip Hilton comes up against professionals participating illegally in amateur sport. |
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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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Roberto & me
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Dan Gutman |
Sometimes you can change history...and sometimes history can change you.When Stosh travels into the past to meet Roberto Clemente, a legendary ballplayer and a beloved humanitarian, he's got only one… |
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Shortstop from Tokyo
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Matt Christopher |
When the new boy from Tokyo takes over Stogie Crane's position as shortstop, the two boys encounter the first of several barriers to their friendship. |
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Pirates at the plate
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Aaron Frisch |
A young boy plays an imaginary game of baseball in the backyard. |
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Slow Heat
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Jill Shalvis |
A great catch-from the USA Today bestselling author of Double Play Baseball player Wade O'Riley's bad-boy image is about to be cleaned up by publicist Samantha McNead. But the sexual tension between … |
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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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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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The Aurora County All-Stars
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Deborah Wiles |
For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be canceled due to their county's anniversary pageant, but after the … |
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Horsin' around
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Loren Long |
In 1899, after losing their first game, the Travelin' Nine arrive in Louisville, Kentucky, where Griffith, Ruby, and Graham use the magical baseball again only to have race horses appear on the baseb… |
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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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Steal that base!
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Kurtis Scaletta |
Chad's job as a bat boy becomes complicated as tries to follow his parents rules, helps his friend Abby with a problem, and finds a card in his collection that might help pinch hitter Sammy find the … |
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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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Super-sized slugger
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Ripken, Cal |
Thirteen-year-old Cody Parker moves to Baltimore, Maryland, where as a fat eighth-grader, he has to deal with brutal teasing from a baseball teammate, and his school is beset by a rash of mysterious … |
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Pete the cat. Play Ball!
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James Dean |
"Pete the Cat is ready to play baseball! Pete's team, the Rocks, is playing the Rolls. But when the game doesn't go Pete's way, what will Pete do?"--From the publisher. |
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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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Bases loaded
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Dean Hughes |
Because Gloria chews out her team members whenever they mess up, she sets the tone for infighting which in turn causes the coach to quit and leaves the future of the team in question. |
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Gold dust
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Chris Lynch,Chris Lynch |
In 1975, twelve-year-old Richard befriends Napoleon, a Caribbean newcomer to his Catholic school, hoping that Napoleon will learn to love baseball and the Red Sox, and will win acceptance in the raci… |
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The only game
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Mike Lupica |
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… |
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