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81) This is baseball
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Pub. Date
[1993]
Description
A simple introduction to the game of baseball, covering its equipment, players, and basic plays. The illustrations show a game in progress.
84) Batting order
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Twelve-year-old Matt Baker is the best all-rounder on his baseball team, but can he help Big Ben Roberson improve his hitting and stand up to his father?
85) Wish
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"A father wishes his 9-year-old son would be well enough to play catch. The son wishes to see his father play in a major league baseball game. They all pray for a successful bone marrow transplant before cancer ends the boy's life, but first, they need to find a donor"--
88) Baseball buzz
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Jackson loves baseball, but a bee in the outfield causes him to miss a fly ball, and the game is stopped until the bee finally departs.
89) Summerland
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Ethan Feld, the worst baseball player in the history of the game, finds himself recruited by a 100-year-old scout to help a band of fairies triumph over an ancient enemy.
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Pub. Date
2004
Description
At a 1931 barnstorming exhibition game in Tennessee, a seventeen-year-old pitcher for the Chattanooga Lookouts struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig back to back. Her name was Jackie Mitchell--"organized baseball's first girl pitcher." On September 9, 1965, Sandy Koufax made baseball history by pitching his fourth perfect game. In July 1970, a stripper rushed onto the field at Riverfront Stadium to kiss Johnny Bench, temporarily disrupting a game attended...
92) Steal away home
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Owen Cross grew up with two loves: one a game, the other a girl. One of those loves ruined him. Now he's counting on the other to save him. Baseball always came easy for Owen Cross. His innate talents were honed beneath the stiff hand of a father who wanted nothing more than for his son to succeed where he had failed. The girl was a little more complicated. Owen loved Micky Dullahan from the first time they met, on a lonely hill overlooking the depressed...
93) The Babe & I
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Description
While helping his family make ends meet during the Great Depression by selling newspapers, a boy meets Babe Ruth.
94) Baseball Flyhawk
Author
Pub. Date
[1963]
Description
New player Chico Romez is welcomed to the team by everyone except first baseman String Becker, the most popular member of the team.
98) Edward's eyes
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Description
Edward is one of a large and close family that loves baseball, music, books, and each other, and when he unexpectedly dies and his parents donate his organs, his wonderful eyes go to a perfect recipient.
99) The other boy
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Hiding his transgender identity behind a veneer of an everyday student who loves baseball and working on his graphic novel, Shane is threatened with exposure by a classmate and begins a painful journey toward acceptance and empathy.
100) Out At Second
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Description
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?