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Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
280 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
While obtaining a Western education at a prestigious Japanese boarding school in 1890, sixteen-year-old Toyo also receives traditional samurai training which has profound effects on both his baseball game and his relationship with his father.
24) Golden arm
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Description
Lazarus Weathers, a high school senior from the wrong side of the tracks, seeks to protect his half-brother while pitching his way out of poverty, one strike at a time.
Lazarus "Laz" Weathers has always been shy, and his issue with stuttering when he speaks hasn't helped. Stuck in a Seattle trailer park, Laz finds baseball helps him escape from the world of poverty and drugs. When he gets an opportunity to pitch for the rich kids across town, he...
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 3
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
161 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
With their ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe and his father have the opportunity to find out whether Babe Ruth really did call his shot when he hit that homerun in the third game of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs.
26) Wing ding
Author
Series
Super sluggers volume 3
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
201 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
When star shortstop for the Rambletown Rounders, Stump Plumwhiff, comes down with a bad case of the "yips," his teammates try to help him regain his self-confidence before the All-Star game.
28) Heroine
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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...
29) Strike zone
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
249, 14 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Nick García dreams of winning MVP of his summer baseball league, of finding a cure for his sister, of meeting his hero, Yankee pitcher Michael Arroyo, and of no longer living in fear of the government and ICE agents.
31) Balletball
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm
Description
Nina loves ballet, not sports, so when her mother signs her up to play baseball she sulks until the coach explains how baseball and ballet can go together--and when a timely plié in the outfield saves the game she realizes that "balletball" is really not so bad after all.
32) Roberto & Me
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 10
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Description
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 goal: warning Roberto not to get on the doomed plane that will end his life in a terrible crash. In the sixties, Stosh meets free-spirited Sunrise, and together they travel across the country to a ball game that leaves them breathless—and
...33) Baseball genius
Author
Series
Baseball genius volume 1
Formats
Description
"An average kid with an above average talent for predicting baseball pitches tries to help his favorite player out of a slump"--
34) Edward's eyes
Author
Formats
Description
Edward is one of a large and close family that loves baseball, music, books, and each other, and when he unexpectedly dies and his parents donate his organs, his wonderful eyes go to a perfect recipient.
35) No fear!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
214 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Follows the experiences of benchwarmer Steve, who struggles to conquer his fear of getting hit with a baseball before his first year on the school team is ruined.
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 22 x 26 cm.
Description
Reginald is more interested in practicing his violin than in his father's job managing the worst team in the Negro Leagues, but when Papa makes him the bat boy and his music begins to lead the team to victory, Papa realizes the value of his son's passion.
40) Get a hit, Mo!
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"Mo Jackson is excited for his baseball game, but Coach Marie tells him he is batting last and playing right field, again. Will Mo ever get a hit?"--
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