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41) About my mother: true stories of a horse-crazy daughter and her baseball-obsessed mother : a memoir
Author
Publisher
Forefront Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Peggy Rowe's story of growing up as the daughter of Thelma Knobel is filled with warmth and humor. But there's a Thelma in everyone's life. She's the person taking charge, the one who knows instinctively how things should be. Growing up, Peggy saw her mother as a benevolent, loving dictator. When major league baseball came to town in the early 1950s and turned sophisticated Thelma into a crazed Baltimore Orioles groupie, nobody was more surprised...
43) Hit & Miss
Author
Series
The Contract volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Young Derek Jeter's friendship with a new student puts him at odds with his friends and seems to be hurting his baseball swing, plus he gets in trouble for confronting a student who is bullying his sister, in violation of the contract with his parents.
Author
Series
Barefoot William volume 4
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Professional baseball player Halo Todd doesn't like failure, but he can never turn down a challenge. Especially when there's a pretty woman involved. How else would he end up dressed as a rooster, helping a complete stranger compete on a wacky game show? Even when they're eliminated after the first round, Halo isn't about to lose the girl"--
45) Swing
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Noah and his best friend Walt want to become cool, make the baseball team, and win over Sam, the girl Noah has loved for years. When Noah finds old love letters, Walt hatches a plan to woo Sam. But as Noah's love life and Walt's baseball career begin, the letters alter everything"--
46) Swindle
Author
Series
Swindle volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the Smart Pick fruit picker.
47) The DH
Author
Series
The Triple Threat volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Embarking on a baseball season marked by his parents' divorce, Alex is confronted by unexpected rival Matt, a disgraced athlete who has been given another chance after taking steroids and who wants to steal the affections of Alex's crush.
48) Curveball
Author
Series
The Contract volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
While spending the summer with his extended family in New Jersey, Derek finds a team he can play baseball with and earns money to take his best friend to a Yankees game.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 29
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When Jack and Annie travel back in time to 1947 Brooklyn, New York, they participate in a history-making baseball game with Jackie Robinson.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big-league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the i fates of five people are upended."--From publisher's description.
Author
Series
Ballpark Mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
While visiting New York's Yankee Stadium with Kate's mother, cousins Mike and Kate decide to investigate the rumor that the ghost of Babe Ruth is haunting the stadium.
52) No fear!
Author
Series
King of the bench volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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.
53) Strike zone
Author
Series
Heat volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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.
54) The Contract
Author
Series
The Contract volume 1
Publisher
Jeter Children's, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In Kalamazoo, Michigan, eight-year-old Derek Jeter, who dreams of playing for the New York Yankees, learns what it takes to be a champion on and off the field.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Theo leaves everything behind to live with his Uncle Chester, a Vietnam War veteran and loner, in Destiny, Florida, but he is drawn to play the piano in Miss Sister's dance school and soon makes friends with the feisty Anabel, a baseball fanatic who invites Theo to help solve a mystery.
56) Biggie
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Henry "Biggie" Abbott has hidden behind his weight for years, and although he is the son and stepson of two of Finch, Minnesota's most famous athletes, he prefers academic success until the girl of his dreams suggests he join the baseball team, and, with his stepbrother's help, he discovers he is a great pitcher.
57) Batting order
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Matt Baker is the best all-rounder on his baseball team, but can he help Big Ben Roberson improve his hitting and stand up to his father?
59) Jim & me
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Joe and his longtime enemy, Bobby Fuller, use a vintage baseball card to travel in time, hoping to stop Jim Thorpe from participating in the 1912 Olympics and losing his medals, but instead they watch Thorpe struggle during his first season with the New York Giants.
60) Snow in August
Author
Publisher
Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
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 encounter that inaugurates a friendship with vast consequences, good and bad, for both of them. Michael lost his father in the war, and the rabbi, a recent immigrant to this country, lost his wife. The threads of their connection widen and strengthen as the...
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