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Willie Mays is arguably the greatest player in baseball history, still revered for the passion he brought to the game. He began as a teenager in the Negro Leagues, became a cult hero in New York, and was the headliner in Major League Baseball's bold expansion to California. With 3,283 hits, 660 home runs, and 338 stolen bases, he was a blend of power, speed, and stylistic bravado that enraptured fans for more than two decades. Now, in the first biography...
83) Heroine
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"When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make a historic tournament run. Behind the plate is the only place she's ever felt comfortable, and the painkillers she's been prescribed can help her get there. The pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good. With a new circle of friends--fellow injured athletes, others with just time...
84) I know baseball
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2013.
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Introduces and examines the different aspects of baseball.
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2019.
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"The man on the mic for countless memorable moments from Larry Walker, Todd Helton, Nolan Arenado, and more, Drew Goodman has lived and breathed Rockies baseball as the team's longtime television broadcaster. In If These Walls Could Talk: Colorado Rockies, Goodman provides insight into the Rockies' inner sanctum as only he can. Featuring conversations with players past and present as well as off-the-wall anecdotes, this indispensable volume is your...
88) Southpaw
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Winning season volume 6
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After moving to New Jersey following his parents' divorce, Jimmy Fleming tries out for the seventh-grade baseball team while also trying to cope with his new life and dealing with his overly-competitive father.
90) Swing
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[2018].
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"Noah and his best friend Walt want to become cool, make the baseball team, and win over Sam, the girl Noah has loved for years. When Noah finds old love letters, Walt hatches a plan to woo Sam. But as Noah's love life and Walt's baseball career begin, the letters alter everything"--
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2016.
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Author Jeff Passan examines the franchise lifeblood role of pitchers in Major League Baseball and the considerable vulnerability of pitching arms. Drawing on rare interviews with Daniel Hudson, Todd Coffey and Sandy Koufax this book provides insights into the impact of injuries on careers and teams.
94) Baseball
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c2009
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In the complex world of the 21st century, the ability to use innovation to solve problems or make products better is a critical skill for kids to possess. This book uses a sport kid's love, baseball, to highlight how innovation has been used to make the game and the people who play them better.
95) This is baseball
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[1993]
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A simple introduction to the game of baseball, covering its equipment, players, and basic plays. The illustrations show a game in progress.
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[2016]
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Eclipsing the traditional sports memoir, House of Nails, by former world champion, multimillionaire entrepreneur, and imprisoned felon Lenny Dykstra, spins a tragicomic tale of Shakespearean proportions -- a relentlessly entertaining American epic that careens between the heights and the abyss.
98) Peedie
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A little goose named Peedie tends to forget everything including where to find his lucky red baseball cap.
99) Dino-baseball
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2010
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Meat-eating dinosaurs face plant-eating dinosaurs in a baseball game.
100) Baseball ballerina
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A baseball-loving girl worries that the ballet class her mother forces her to take will ruin her reputation with the other members of her baseball team.