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Presents the story of baseball star Roberto Clemente and his journey from an impoverished childhood to fame and fortune, as he strives to go the distance for respect.
2) The DH
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Triple threat (John Feinstein) volume 3
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Central - Teen Fiction
YF FEINS
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YF FEINS
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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.
3) Game seven
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Central - Teen Fiction
YF VOLPO
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YF VOLPO
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"A sixteen-year-old shortstop in Cuba who dreams of playing with the pros must choose between his country and his father who defected to the U.S."--
4) Golden arm
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Lazarus Weathers, a high school senior from the wrong side of the tracks, seeks to protect his half-brother while pitching his way out of poverty, one strike at a time.
Lazarus "Laz" Weathers has always been shy, and his issue with stuttering when he speaks hasn't helped. Stuck in a Seattle trailer park, Laz finds baseball helps him escape from the world of poverty and drugs. When he gets an opportunity to pitch for the rich kids across town, he...
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Columbia Pike - Teen Fiction
YF DELAP
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YF DELAP
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Danny is tall and skinny. Even though he’s not built, his arms are long enough to give his pitch a power so fierce any college scout would sign him on the spot. Ninety-five mile an hour fastball, but the boy’s not even on a team. Every time he gets up on the mound, he loses it. But at his private school, they don’t expect much else from him. Danny is brown. Half-Mexican brown. And growing up in San Diego that close to the border means everyone...
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YF LEE
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YF LEE
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"Can Marnie pitch for the boy's baseball team and field an unexpected crush without striking out at the game ... and in love?"--
7) The pitcher
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Aurora Hills - Teen Fiction
YF HAZEL
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YF HAZEL
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"I never knew I had an arm until this guy called out, "Hey you want to try and get a ball in the hole, sonny?" I was only nine, but mom said, "come on, let's play." This Carney guy with no teeth and a fuming cigarette hands me five blue rubber balls and says if I throw three in the hole we win a prize. He's grinning, because he took mom's five bucks and figures a sucker is born every minute. That really got me, because we didn't have any money after...
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Central - Teen Fiction
YF GRATZ
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YF GRATZ
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While obtaining a Western education at a prestigious Japanese boarding school in 1890, sixteen-year-old Toyo also receives traditional samurai training which has profound effects on both his baseball game and his relationship with his father.
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Satchel Paige began his baseball career in the Negro Leagues in Alabama in the 1920s. For years, Jim Crow laws, which segregated blacks and whites, kept him out of the major leagues. But they couldn't stop him from becoming a world-class athlete. This is a fictionalized account of a real-life sports hero.
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Shirlington - Teen Fiction
YF WHITE
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YF WHITE
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Eighteen-year-old Jill Cafferty just made history. Her high schools star pitcher, she is now the first woman drafted by a major league baseball team. Only days after her high school graduation, shell join the Pittsburgh Pirates Class A Short Season team... but not everyone is happy to have her there. On top of the pressure heaped on every pitcher, Jill must deal with defying conventions and living up to impossible expectations, all while...
11) See no color
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Central - Teen Fiction
YF GIBNE
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YF GIBNE
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Alex has always identified herself as a baseball player, the daughter of a winning coach, but when she realizes that is not enough she begins to come to terms with her adoption and her race.
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Shakespeare bats cleanup volume 1
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Central - Teen Fiction
YF KOERT
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YF KOERT
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When a fourteen-year-old baseball player catches mononucleosis, he discovers that keeping a journal and experimenting with poetry not only helps fill the time, it also helps him deal with life, love, and loss.
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Columbia Pike - Teen Nonfiction
Y 796.357 MARAN
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Y 796.357 MARAN
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"The true story of Glenn Burke, a "hidden figure" in the history of sports: the inventor of the high five and the first openly gay MLB player"--
14) Stealing home
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Cherrydale - Teen Fiction
YF WALLA
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YF WALLA
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"Ryan Russell has life perfectly planned. She's going to take over her family's team, the Buckley Beavers, and become one of the only female General Managers in minor league baseball. Then Sawyer Campbell shows up, and Ryan's carefully laid plans are thrown a major curveball. Sawyer is far more charming than the arrogant jocks she usually manages, though fraternizing is against every rule in the Beaver's handbook. But after figuring out the desperate...
15) Swing
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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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Central - Teen Fiction
YF WILLI
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YF WILLI
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Alex is a baseball player. A great one. His papi is pushing him to go pro, but Alex maybe wants to be a poet. Not that Papi would understand or allow that. Isa is a dancer. She'd love to go pro, if only her Havana-born mom weren't dead set against it...just like she's dead set against her daughter falling for a Latino. And Isa's privileged private-school life-with her dad losing his job and her older brother struggling with mental illness-is falling...
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YF RITTE
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YF RITTE
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Andy and Glory, two fifteen-year-olds from Ocean Beach, California, pursue their respective dreams of becoming a famous musician and a professional softball player.