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Language
English
Description
Baseball and the people who live and breathe it will seem closer and more vivid than ever.
Painting the Corners Again is Bob Weintraub's second marvelous collection of baseball stories. It goes directly to the core of what America's pastime does for us when we watch it being played on the field. Weintraub shows us that baseball has its heroes and its villains, and that they can reach into a person's life and remain a part of us for the rest of our...
Author
Language
English
Description
Bob Weintraub's marvelous collection of baseball stories goes directly to the core of what the game does for us when we watch it being played on the field, and shows how its heroes and villains can reach into our lives and remain a part of us for the rest of our days. The stories are told from various perspectives, including those of the player, manager, general manager, coach, scout, owner, writer, broadcaster, and fan. In "Knuckleball,"; a manager...
Author
Language
English
Description
A rich variety of baseball fiction exists south of the Florida Straits and the Rio Grande, but almost none available in English. This collection translates for the first time stories ranging from the highly literary to the vernacular. These inventive and entertaining stories reveal the place of baseball in Latin America. Mixing fan and fandom, baseball and politics, rural and urban life, sexism and poverty, Kill the Ampaya! reveals how baseball shapes...
Author
Language
English
Description
Bob Weintraub's marvelous collection of baseball stories goes directly to the core of what the game does for us when we watch it being played on the field, and shows how its heroes and villains can reach into our lives and remain a part of us for the rest of our days. The stories are told from various perspectives, including those of the player, manager, general manager, coach, scout, owner, writer, broadcaster, and fan.
In "Knuckleball," a manager...
5) Plunked
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixth-grader Jack Mogens loses his nerve after getting hit by a pitch, and has to dig deep within himself to avoid giving up the sport he loves.
6) Perfect game
Author
Series
Little league volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Now playing on different teams, twelve-year-old cousins--and best friends--Carter and Liam must compete against each other at the Little League World Series.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Earl Grubb's Pool Supplies plays Northeast Gas & Electric in the Little League championship game, while Sam, who has cancer and is in a wheelchair, has to call the play-by-play instead of participating in the game.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her school is shut down due to an asbestos problem, all-star pitcher Gabby Garcia is sent to an upscale private school that already has a star pitcher, and to make matters worse, she has trouble making friends and finding her place.
Author
Series
Matt Christopher sports fiction volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Sylvester Coddmyer III is having a dismal baseball season until he takes advice from a mysterious ex-ballplayer named Cheeko and starts to play more aggressively.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighth-grader Molly's ability to throw a knuckleball earns her a spot on the baseball team, which not only helps her feel connected to her recently deceased father, who loved baseball, it helps in other aspects of her life, as well.
12) Zero's slider
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While trying to ask Uncle Pete to coach for the Peach Street Mudders, Zero discovers that he can throw a slider when there's a big bandage on his injured thumb.
13) Slumpbuster
Author
Series
Super sluggers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old slugger Banjo "The Great Walloper" Bishbash is overcome by a nasty hitting slump as he tries to lead the Rambletown Rounders to the division baseball championship.
14) Throwing smoke
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When his teammates on the Breadhurst Newts baseball team continue their losing ways, Whiz uses an unusual printing press to create several star players in hopes of winning a game.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Danny thinks that there is something very familiar about the girl who plays shortstop on the team he faces during the championship series, and his curiosity leads him to a surprising discovery about his own adoption.
Author
Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 13
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The fate of a small California town rests on the outcome of one baseball game, and Tom Gallagher hopes to lead his team to victory with the secrets of the now disgraced player, Dante Del Gato.
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Angry when he cannot pitch in the season's opening game because of Passover, Danny finally makes some important decisions about loyalty to his divorced parents, his team, his heritage, and himself.
Author
Publisher
Beech Tree
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A fatherless white boy, who shares with an old black man an enthusiasm for the Brooklyn Dodgers and first baseman, Jackie Robinson, takes a ball autographed by Jackie to his elderly friend's deathbed.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The evil Sinestro Bug Corps have invaded a baseball game on Earth. Thankfully, the Green Lantern Bug Corps are out to stop them! If they don't, America's favorite pastime might become the world's worst pest crime"--P. [4] of cover.
20) Dugout rivals
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jake, who was one of his mediocre baseball team's best players the previous season, unexpectedly finds himself overshadowed when a new player shows up and the team starts winning.
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