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  • Thumb on a diamond
    Auteur:
    Roberts, Ken, Franson, Leanne
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    A Horn Book Fanfare Top Ten List selection and an SSLI Honor Book. Thumb and Susan come up with an ingenious plan that will take all of the village's nine school-aged kids on the trip of a lifetime. They'll form a baseball team, win the...
  • The rhino in right field
    Auteur:
    DeKeyser, Stacy
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    A boy who loves baseball must get past his hard-working immigrant parents—and the rhino in the outfield—to become a batboy in this laugh-out-loud middle grade novel in the tradition of The Sandlot . Nick wants to change his life. For...
  • The proposal
    Auteur:
    Guillory, Jasmine
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    A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick

    “There is so much to relate to and throughout the novel, there is a sharp feminist edge. Loved this one, and you will too.”—New York Times bestselling author Roxane Gay

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  • The boy who saved baseball
    Auteur:
    Ritter, John H.
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    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.
  • The big field
    Auteur:
    Lupica, Mike
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    When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer...
  • State showdown
    Auteur:
    Christopher, Matt
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    In the third book of this series, pitcher Carter Jones and his Forest Park All-Stars move on to sectionals competition, but Carter and his cousin, catcher Liam McGrath, must deal with grudges that threaten to break apart their team. ...
  • Soar
    Auteur:
    Bauer, Joan
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    Jeremiah is the world's biggest baseball fan. He really loves baseball and he knows just about everything there is to know about his favorite sport. So when he's told he can't play baseball following an operation on his...
  • Playing ball
    Auteur:
    Connor, Shae, McMurray, Kate, Freeman, Kerry, Labbe, Marguerite
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    Baseball — America's favorite pastime — provides a field wide open for romance. A Home Field Advantage may not help when Toby must choose between the team he’s loved all his life and the man he could love for the rest of it. In 1927,...
  • Perfect game
    Auteur:
    Christopher, Matt
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    Two weeks of competition remain to decide the final teams for the Little League World Series. The anticipation is high, as it's possible last year's finalists will return--Carter and Liam's teams. Can these best friends...
  • Murder at Ebbets Field
    Auteur:
    Soos, Troy
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    When Giant's rookie Mickey Rawlings discovers the body of a glamorous movie star--and the Dodgers' new owner--bad luck stalks him, calling outs on and off the field.
  • Much ado about baseball
    Auteur:
    LaRocca, Rajani
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    Twelve-year-old Trish can solve tough math problems and throw a mean fastball. But because of her mom's new job, she's now facing a summer trying to make friends all over again in a new town. At her first baseball practice,...
  • Magic Time
    Auteur:
    W. P. Kinsella
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    Mike Houle is a college all-star second baseman in his junior year when he turns down a fourth-round draft pick offer from the Montreal Expos. He'll finish his business degree and try his luck again next year. But Mike's final...
  • Jim & me
    Auteur:
    Gutman, Dan
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    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...
  • Jack at bat : Jack series, book 3
    Auteur:
    Barnett, Mac
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    From New York Times bestselling author Mac Barnett and Geisel Award-winning illustrator Greg Pizzoli, an uproarious early reader series about a mischievous rabbit, a cranky old lady, and a lovable dog. The Lady and Rex have a baseball...
  • Hurricane heat
    Auteur:
    Barwin, Steven
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    Everything stops making sense for southpaw Travis Barkley when his parents die in a car crash and he is separated from his sister, Amanda. After years of being in the foster-care system, Travis receives a puzzling postcard from Amanda...
  • Hunting a Detroit Tiger
    Auteur:
    Soos, Troy
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    Mickey Rawlings, playing for the Detroit Tigers as a utility infielder, attends a labor meeting to satisfy his curiosity about a ballplayers' union. When the organizer dies at the meeting, Mickey is falsely accused of the murder.
  • Heart of a champion
    Auteur:
    Schwartz, Ellen
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    Ten-year-old Kenny (Kenji in Japanese) worships his older brother, Mickey (Mitsuo), a baseball hero whose outstanding performance on the Asahi baseball team has given him fame and popularity. Despite Kenny's suspected heart condition,...
  • Hardball
    Auteur:
    Barwin, Steven
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    Baseball season has begun for the Gulf Coast Sharks. As a senior, Griffin has college in his sights and plans to land himself a baseball scholarship. His determination causes him to turn a blind eye to the hazing of new players by the...
  • Get a grip, Vivy Cohen
    Auteur:
    Kapit, Sarah
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    In this perfectly pitched novel-in-letters, autistic eleven-year-old Vivy Cohen won't let anything stop her from playing baseball—not when she has a major-league star as her pen pal. Vivy Cohen is determined. She's had enough of playing...
  • District doubleheader
    Auteur:
    Christopher, Matt
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    Little League players Liam and Carter are still adjusting to all the recent changes after Liam's family moved across the country to California. Liam is faced with having to prove himself all over again to his new teammates. Carter, on...

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