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1) Calico Joe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In this novel, the careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it is what happens off the field that makes this story a classic.
Author
Series
Matt Christopher sports fiction volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sylvester loves baseball and is excited to join his neighborhood team, but he is not a good hitter--until a mysterious stranger, Mr. Baruth, promises to make him one of the best players ever, and soon Sylvester is transformed into a kid who can only hit homers.
Author
Series
Baseball great novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Determined to play in the Little League World Series, twelve-year-old Josh struggles to concentrate on his game and be the team's leader while also trying to cope with his parents' impending divorce.
5) Play ball!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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.
7) Catchers
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Updated for 2020. Learn basic baseball skills and techniques at the catcher position and meet famous catchers.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Baseball has long been dubbed America's national pastime. When the top teams face off in the World Series each season, team legacies and fans' hearts are on the line. Author Matt Doeden covers the century-long history of the World Series, from its humble beginnings to becoming a worldwide sensation. Discover the drama behind the statistics and record books that keeps the crowd enthralled!
10) Baseball records
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about baseball records. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2016, the Cubs ended a 108-year curse, winning the World Series in a history-making, seven-game series against the Cleveland Indians. One of the many storylines to Chicago's fairytale season was the late-career renaissance of David Ross, the 39-year-old catcher who had played back-up for 13 of his 15 pro seasons. Beyond Ross's remarkably strong play, he became the ultimate positive force in the Cubs locker room, mentoring and motivating his fellow...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Peter Schilling's wonderful novel, the extraordinary baseball season of 1944 comes vividly to life. Bill Veeck, the maverick promoter, returned from Guadalcanal with a leg missing and $500 to his name, has hustled his way into buying the Philadelphia Athletics. Hungry for a pennant, young Veeck jettisons the team's white players and secretly recruits the legendary stars of the Negro Leagues, fielding a club that will go down in baseball annals...
13) New York Yankees
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Students will love learning about the New York Yankees in this high-interest title! Covers the team's history, memorable wins, star players, and important coaches. Features include table of contents, fun facts, team stats, timeline, glossary, and index."--Publisher's description.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Baseball and ghost stories are as American as apple pie. Haunted Baseball combines both with this fun and freaky collection of otherworldly yarns. Collected from baseball players, stadium personnel, umpires, front-office folks, and fans, the tales told here explore the spooky connection between baseball and the paranormal, including Babe Ruth sightings at a former brothel, the Curse of the Billy Goat that still haunts the Chicago Cubs, of hidden passageways...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The founding editor of ESPN the Magazine and Pulitzer Prize nominee presents the extraordinary inside story of baseball's last 20 years, during which the genius and struggle for power of three men saved the game from self-destruction.
In the fall of 1992, America's National Pastime is in crisis and already on the path to the unthinkable: canceling a World Series for the first time in history. The owners are at war, their decades-long battle with...
16) Minnesota Twins
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
This title discusses the history, memorable wins, star players, and important coaches of the Minnesota Twins baseball team. Includes fun facts and team stats. -- Adapted from publisher's description.
18) Comeback
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In one of the most memorable moments of Major League Baseball, Dave Dravecky of the San Francisco Giants pitched a winning game less than a year after undergoing cancer surgery on his pitching arm. But his comeback was short-lived. Just five days after his winning game, Dravecky broke his arm-and would later lose it entirely as the cancer returned. Dravecky's true comeback would come later, as a bestselling author and inspirational speaker offering...
20) Dino-baseball
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meat-eating dinosaurs face plant-eating dinosaurs in a baseball game.
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