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2) Double play
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
In 1947, as Jackie Robinson breaks the major league baseball color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Joseph Burke, a World War II veteran and survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to be Robinson's bodyguard.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
262 pages, 4 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jared Richards is undefeated in baseball games--video games, anyway. But when he loses a bet to his best friend, Jared is forced to get off the couch and step onto the field for his school's baseball team tryouts. Despite the fact that he's never even held a baseball before, Jared ends up being pretty impressive as a pitcher--until the line between video games and reality begins to blur. Can Jared sort out the glitch in his brain before he blows the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
A portable radio helps a girl survive after she is lost in the woods of New England. During her nine-day ordeal, Trisha McFarland fights thirst, wasps and the terrors of the night, all the while keeping up her spirits by listening to music and baseball games.
Author
Publisher
Hay House, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
xxi, 229 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Reveals the author's spiritual journey after discovering her two-year-old son remembered a previous life where he was a baseball player in the 1920s and 1930s.
Author
Series
Little Rhino volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
�2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
100 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A new chapter book series from Major League Baseball's 2006 National League MVP, Ryan Howard. Little Rhino's baseball season is in full swing! Grandpa James even buys Rhino a new bat as a reward for keeping up with all of his schoolwork. But, after practice, Rhino's bat goes missing! With a big game coming up, will Rhino be able to find his bat in time to help his team?
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eloise and Nanny enjoy a summer day by going to a baseball game, where Eloise has too many snacks and catches a foul ball by her favorite player.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Shoeless Joe Jackson, said by some to be the greatest baseball player ever, goes into a hitting slump just before he is to start his minor league career, so he asks his friend to make him a special bat to help him hit.
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
The official companion, filled with original and archival photographs, to the National Baseball Hall of Fame's groundbreaking four-year travelling exhibition, pays tribute to America's favorite national pasttime by featuring over thirty essays by writers, players, scholars, and fans, revealing how baseball has had a profound impact on the evolution of American culture.
12) Swindle
Author
Series
Swindle mystery volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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 SmartPick fruit picker.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Police Chief Jesse Stone is back in the remarkable new installment of the New York Times-bestselling series. It's been a long time since Jesse Stone left L.A., and longer still since the tragic injury that ruined his chances for a professional baseball career. When Jesse is invited to a reunion of his old Triple-A team, he is forced to grapple with his memories and his regrets over what might have been. But his time at the reunion is cut short when...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 29
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Jack and Annie use the magic tree house to travel back in time to 1947 Brooklyn, New York, where they pretend to be batboys at Jackie Robinson's first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Boston Braves"--
15) Rivals
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011, �2010
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Josh looks forward to facing a true rival in the Baseball Hall of Fame tournament, but first he and his friends Jaden and Benji put themselves at great risk trying to expose the truth about a conspiracy to bribe the head umpire.
16) Baseball great
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
All twelve-year-old Josh wants to do is play baseball, but when his father, a minor league pitcher, signs him up for a youth championship team, Josh finds himself embroiled in a situation with potentially illegal consequences.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
195 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Growing up the youngest of seven children in Puerto Rico, Roberto Clemente had a talent for baseball. His incredible skill soon got him drafted into the big leagues where he spent 18 seasons playing right field for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Who Was Roberto Clemente? tells the story of this remarkable athlete: a twelve-time All-Star, World Series MVP, and the first Latin American inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014, c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
31 p. : col. ill.
Language
English
Description
Pete the Cat has a mitt, a ball, and a bat and is ready to play baseball. Pete's team, the Rocks, is playing the Rolls. But when things don't go Pete's way, will he get upset?--Publisher.