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Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Flat Stanley, the beloved character created by Jeff Brown, is back in this I Can Read book about baseball! When Stanley plays center field for his baseball team, he is a flat-out great player! None of the other players can float to catch the highest hits, or earn walks from the fastest pitchers. But when the fairness of his flatness is questioned by the other team, Stanley has to step up to bat to prove himself. Join Flat Stanley in this easy-to-follow...
6) Jack at bat
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Lady and Rex have a baseball game against the Big City Brats. Jack is not allowed to swing the bat, so he is told to be the Bat Boy. That is, until the Lady Town Ladies and the Big City Brats are tied. It's up to Jack to hit a home run, but on the way to home plate he spots some snacks...
Author
Publisher
Cemetery Dance
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The character of George Granny Grantham recounts the story of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely, who was called in to fill a spot for the New Jersey Titans in the spring of 1957 and exhibited tenacity in the game as well as some disturbing eccentricities.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2010], p2010
Language
English
Description
Retired third-base coach George 'Granny' Grantham chronicles the story of Billy Blakely, a catcher called up from Iowa to play for the New Jersey Titans in the spring of 1957. A powerful hitter and passionate catcher, Blockade Billy becomes notorious for drawing blood out of runners who collide with him at home plate. However, Billy holds a sinister secret, one that causes baseball officials to remove his name from the record books.
Author
Publisher
Papamoa Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
AT BATWITH BILL STERN Baseball is a game rooted deep in the heart of America. I've loved it ever since I was a kid old enough to yell: Take Me Out to the Ball Game! As long as I can remember, I've been hearing stories of baseball ... fascinating tales of fabulous heroes from a land where the sun always shines and men never grow old ... curious legends that grew stranger with age ... yarns that have been handed down with the years as treasured lore....
12) The DH
Author
Series
Triple threat volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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.
Author
Series
Ballpark mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When cousins Mike and Kate go to Kansas City for the All-Star game, they meet the son of the American League starting catcher who stands falsely accused of playing practical jokes on his All-Star teammates.
15) The Astro outlaw
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While visiting Houston, Texas, Mike and Kate tour the Johnson Space Center with an astronaut in the morning and at the Houston Astros' ball game that evening, the cousins search for the person who steals the astronaut's moonrock when he arrives at the stadium to sign autographs.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A contemporary American classic-a poignant and hilarious tale of baseball, hero worship, eccentric behavior, and unlikely friendship
Last Days of Summer is the story of Joey Margolis, neighborhood punching bag, growing up goofy and mostly fatherless in Brooklyn in the early 1940s. A boy looking for a hero, Joey decides to latch on to Charlie Banks, the all-star third basemen for the New York Giants. But Joey's chosen champion doesn't exactly welcome...
17) You Know Me Al
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the early decades of the twentieth century, newspaperman and humorist Ring Lardner (1885–1933) made America laugh with his hilarious depictions of odd characters in the sporting world, Tin Pan Alley, and Hollywood. His first great success was You Know Me Al, a fictional series of letters from a popular baseball hero to his friend, slyly revealing the letter writer as a crude, conceited, semiliterate, self-deceiving boob. The letters, created...
18) Top of the order
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Jackson lives for baseball, but becomes distracted by the approach of middle school, his mother's latest boyfriend, and the presence of a girl--his good friend's sister--on his team.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An African American family in Cleveland, Ohio, listens on their new radio to the first game of the 1948 World Series, in which Larry Doby, the first black player in the American League, won the game for the Cleveland Indians.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 29
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
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"--
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