Matt Christopher sports fiction
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2) Little Lefty
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Pub. Date
[1993]
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Bill is the smallest member of the team but he can throw harder than anyone else. Determined to play, he is about to get his big break when he is sidelined by a freak accident. Will Bill ever get a chance to prove himself on the mound?
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Pub. Date
[1964]
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Tod Baker is sure his new hockey stick will improve his game significantly. But when his team loses, he realizes good stickhandling requires hard work and practice. He puts his new stick in the closet with a vow not to use it until he deserves it. But will it be this year, or next?
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Too hot to handle
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6)
The reluctant pitcher
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9)
Catch that pass!
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10)
Hard drive to short
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11) Johnny Long Legs
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Pub. Date
[1970]
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Even though he is the tallest member of the basketball team, a young boy finds he is far from being the best player.
13) Face-off
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Although he loves the game, a young hockey player discovers he is handicapped while playing by his fear of the puck.
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Soccer hero
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20) Soccer halfback
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Pub. Date
{1985} 1978
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A young boy is pressured by his family to abandon his promising soccer career for football.
21) Dirt bike racer
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Description
Twelve-year-old Ron Baker finds a minibike while scuba diving and, with the help of a former motorcycle rider and racer, restores the bike and enters competition.
22) Tight end
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A high school football player believes the harassment he is experiencing on and off the field is due to his father's prison record.
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Drag-strip racer
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30) Ice magic
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Description
The twins' toy hockey game seems to be magic as it plays games identical to the real ones before they even happen.
31) Red-Hot Hightops
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Pub. Date
[1987]
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Normally fearful to play basketball in front of a crowd, Kelly becomes a confident and aggressive player when she dons a mysterious pair of red sneakers that she finds.
32) Tough to tackle
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Disappointed at first by not being large enough to make quarterback, Boots discovers that there is as much challenge in playing tackle.
33) Run, Billy, run
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When 14-year -old Billy joins the track team, he improves his running and other areas of his life too.
34)
Shortstop from Tokyo
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36)
The counterfeit tackle
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37) Takedown
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Description
As he is helped by an assistant referee to prepare for a wrestling match with the neighborhood bully, Sean begins to wonder if his mentor could be his long-lost father.
39) Skateboard tough
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Formats
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When Brett's skateboarding abilities dramatically and inexplicably improve after using The Lizard, a skateboard mysteriously unearthed in his front yard, his friends start to wonder if the skateboard is haunted.
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Series
Matt Christopher sports fiction volume 2
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Sylvester Coddmyer III is having a dismal baseball season until he takes advice from a mysterious ex-ballplayer named Cheeko and starts to play more aggressively.
43)
Long stretch at first base
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44) Pressure play
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Description
Travis, less obsessed with baseball than his fellow team members, tries to balance his playing with his hobby of horror videos and starts receiving anonymous threats warning him to spend more time on baseball.
45) Top wing
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Pub. Date
c1994
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Dana Bellamy searches for the truth behind the fire for which his father is being blamed.
46)
The winning stroke
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47) Baseball Flyhawk
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Pub. Date
[1963]
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New player Chico Romez is welcomed to the team by everyone except first baseman String Becker, the most popular member of the team.
49) Fighting tackle
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Pub. Date
[1995]
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When he becomes stronger but slower, Terry must deal with being moved from defensive safety to offensive tackle on his football team and with the fact that his younger brother, who was born with Down's Syndrome, is becoming a faster runner.
50)
Shoot for the hoop
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53)
Olympic dream
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55) Penalty shot
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Pub. Date
[1997]
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Jeff, already worried about losing his place on the hockey team because of low grades, suddenly finds himself the victim of sabotage in the form of forged papers.
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Prime-time pitcher
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62) Soccer scoop
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Pub. Date
[1998]
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When a cartoon appears in the school newspaper making fun of his tendency to talk a lot, Mac, the goalie for the Cougars' soccer team, is determined to find out who is responsible.
63) Spike it!
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Pub. Date
1999
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Unhappy at having to share space and family with her new stepsister Michaela when her father remarries, thirteen-year-old Jamie is further dismayed when Michaela joins her volleyball team and becomes a star player.
67) Soccer duel
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Pub. Date
2000
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Team rivalry threatens to spoil a budding friendship between a showy soccer player, Bryce, and soft-spoken but talented Renny.
68) Tennis ace
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Pub. Date
2000.
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Steve and Ginny are frustrated because their father ignores her talent as a tennis player while pushing him harder and harder to win at the sport.
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Wheel wizards
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70) Cool as Ice
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Pub. Date
c2001
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Two friends try to prove that size and race do not matter when playing hockey or any other sport.
71) Inline skater
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Pub. Date
[2001]
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Cris must choose between "aggro" skating and roller hockey, which also means choosing between his old friends and some new ones.
73) Dive right in
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Pub. Date
[2002]
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Forced to quit gymnastics to avoid serious injury, twelve-year-old Traci tries to fill the void in her life by taking up diving.
75) Run for it
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Thirteen-year-old Theo, overweight and out of shape, finds that with his friend's support he just might be able to run in the race to raise money to help cancer patients like his aunt.
76)
Body check
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77)
Fairway phenom
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78) Nothin' but net
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Pub. Date
[2003]
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When thirteen-year-old Tim Daniels gets a chance to go to basketball camp, he is faced with trying to be accepted by the popular players and remaining true to his friend who has become the butt of practical jokes.
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Slam dunk
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80) Snowboard champ
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Pub. Date
2004
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When Matt Harper steps off the plane, he knows his life is about to change. For one thing, he'll be living with his uncle for a year. For another, compared to Chicago, Dragon Valley is tiny. But so long as Matt can hit the slopes with his snowboard, he figures he'll get along okay.
81) Stealing home
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Pub. Date
c2004
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Joey is sure he will not get along with the exchange student from Nicaragua who is staying with his family for a year, but they find common ground on the baseball field.
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Series
Home run kid series volume 3
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Sylvester Coddmyer III, star of The Kid Who Only Hit Homers and Return of the Home Run Kid, is about to face his biggest challenge yet. His second season with the Hooper Redbirds is over and he's looking forward to the start of summer baseball, when he sprains his left ankle in a freak accident. How will he hit homers when every swing means pain?
83)
Lacrosse firestorm
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85) Karate kick
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Pub. Date
[2009]
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Cole Richards, in his fourth year of karate training, is preparing for the test that will move him to the next belt level when his dojo announces a "create-your-own-kata" contest, and between trying to decide which competition to enter, and dealing with tensions with peers and friends, Cole begins to get too stressed.
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Hook shot hero
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88) Out At Second
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When the Grizzlies' first baseman is sidelined two days before the playoffs, catcher Manny Griffin and second baseman Stu Fletcher take it upon themselves to help his replacement become a better player.Should Manny keep his promise....even if it puts his friend in danger?
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