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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Odd man out	Matt McCarthy	A novel of chilling suspense about a father who will do anything to protect his teenage daughterFollowing the tragic deaths of his wife and son, antiques dealer Terence Cave is left alone to raise hi…	OL11994036W
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon [adaptation]	Peter Abrahams	Stephen King's award-winning, best-selling novel "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" is stunningly told in this, the first pop-up book by the master of suspense. It is a fairy tale grimmer than Grimm, re…	OL14953756W
The Complete Game	Ron Darling	Ron Darling has been beloved by Mets fans since he helped his team win the 1986 World Series. Today he is considered one of the most articulate and insightful broadcasters in baseball, bringing the g…	OL14981247W
Foul Play	Tori Carrington	Struggling to break into the private investigator scene in Queens, Greek-American Sophie Metropolis searches for a missing New York Mets pitcher whose look-alike brother has also disappeared.	OL15836407W
Nobody's perfect	Armando Galarraga	The Detroit Tigers pitcher and veteran umpire share their respective views on the June 2, 2010 game that was entered into the record books with what the umpire believes was his erroneous call on the …	OL16462148W
Wherever I wind up	R.A. Dickey	"A memoir written by baseball pitcher R.A. Dickey"--	OL16509552W
Calico Joe	John Grisham	Review Written by Bernie Weisz, Historian Pembroke Pines, Florida, U.S.A. September 30, 2012 Contact: [email protected] Title of Review: The Code of Baseball, A Ruined Childhood & A Trip Down Memory L…	OL16628377W
Heartland weddings	Jennifer Johnson	A wedding song in Lexington, Kentucky: "Every day Megan McKinney watches women drop by the law firm to visit her boss, Justin Frasure. Even though he became a Christian three months ago, nothing's ch…	OL18024087W
Sports great Greg Maddux	Stew Thornley	A biography of the star pitcher for the Atlanta Braves who has won the Cy Young award for four consecutive years.	OL1818606W
Greg Maddux	Richard Rambeck	A biography of the Atlanta Braves' pitcher who was named baseball's Player of the Year in 1995.	OL1822753W
Slider	Patrick Robinson	Each summer, on the fields of glorious Cape Marlin, off the New England coast, the nation's best college players gather to play the most important baseball of their lives.Jack Faber is a young hotsho…	OL1973606W
Walter Johnson	Jack Kavanagh	A biography of the Hall of Fame baseball player who was deemed the greatest pitcher of his era.	OL1990104W
Bigger than the game	Dirk Hayhurst	Dirk's latest memoir about his sports injury, his rehab, and the lessons he learned outside of the game, will go down as yet another baseball classic. A possibly career ending injury looks to knock …	OL19976313W
Making my pitch	Ila Jane Borders	xix, 224 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm	OL20055220W
Strike out the side	Brandon Terrell	Looking for some new skills for the pitcher's mound, Logan Parrish visits Sal's Used Sporting Goods, where he meets a former minor league pitcher.	OL24690211W
A way out	Billy Wagner	"You will never amount to anything. ... You are not good enough." ... Those stinging words stuck with Billy Wagner as a young boy growing up in Virginia. But he refused to let those words define his …	OL28761568W
The girl who threw butterflies	Mick Cochrane	For an eighth grader, Molly Williams has more than her fair share of problems. Her father has just died in a car accident, and her mother has become a withdrawn, quiet version of herself.Molly doesn'…	OL3341959W
Baseball's greatest pitchers	Milton J. Shapiro	Relates how "good pitching will always beat good hitting," by describing the careers of men like Whitey Ford, Don Drysdale, Denny McLain, Sandy Koufax, Cy Young, and others.	OL6322927W
Ball-shy pitcher	Richard Summers	Boys with varied ethnic backgrounds and personal problems forget differences as they strive for a common goal in the Little League.	OL7024437W
Don Larsen's miraculous world series game and the men who made it happen	Lew Paper	On October 8, 1956, New York Yankees pitcher Don Larsen took the mound for Game 5 of the World Series against the rival Brooklyn Dodgers. In an improbable performance that the New York Times called t…	OL8953824W