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61) Batter up Wombat
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
An Australian wombat joins the Champs baseball team, and even though he is disastrously ignorant about the game, his innate talents save everyone when a tornado suddenly strikes.
63) Me and McGee
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
After McGee smashes a lazy pitch to win the championship for the Catbirds, the pitcher spends a whole winter practicing in hopes of striking him out when they face off again.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Although everyone credits him and his superstitions for the Slugger's first winning streak in 108 baseball seasons, eleven-year-old Danny Gurkin believes that his discovery of a secret from the team's past may be the real reason behind the ball club's success.
67) Roberto & me
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stosh travels back to 1969 to try to prevent the untimely death of Roberto Clemente, a legendary baseball player and humanitarian, but upon his return to the present, he meets his own great-grandson who takes him into the future, and what he finds there is more shocking than anything he has encountered in his travels to the past.
68) Summerland
Author
Publisher
Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
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.
69) Plunked
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Jack Mogens loses his nerve after getting hit by a pitch, and has to dig deep within himself to avoid giving up the sport he loves.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 29
Language
English
Description
"Jack and Annie use the magic tree house to travel back in time to 1947 Brooklyn, New York, where they pretend to be batboys at Jackie Robinson's first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Boston Braves"--
71) The big field
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 too.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
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Description
"Lupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues. She's also championed causes her whole young life. Some worthy ... like expanding the options for race on school tests beyond just a few bubbles. And some not so much...like complaining to the BBC about the length between Doctor Who seasons. Lupe needs an A in all her classes in order to meet her favorite pitcher, Fu Li Hernandez, who's Chinacan/Mexinese just like her. So when...
73) Wild pitch
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Robbie Hammond, the Dulaney Orioles' pitcher, has to persevere through a losing season"--
74) Baseball blues
Author
Series
Alien next door volume 5
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Zeke uses his powers to become a superstar on the youth baseball team, ignoring Harris's concern that this is cheating, their friendship is in trouble.
75) Camp average
Author
Series
Camp Average volume 1
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Camp Average is a middle-grade novel that tells the story of a group of 11-year-old boys sharing Cabin 10 at a six-week summer sports camp for boys. The actual name of the place is Camp Avalon, but the kids call it Camp Average, because they never win at any sport. And that's the way they like it. But this summer, Winston, the new camp director doesn't like losing, and he's not about to start! Led by the main protagonist, Mack, and his best friend...
76) Stealing home
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"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...
78) Lucky Luis
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Luis is convinced that he will not perform well on the baseball field without following his unique pre-game ritual.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Told from different points of view, the Putterman cousins, twins Sammy and Matty, and Becky, have been at odds, but when Hurricane Harvey hits Houston, they soon find that they need each other more than ever.
80) Pinch hit
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When movie star Trevor and regular Little League player Sam discover that they are identical twins who were separated at birth, they decide to trade places for a while so that Sam can live the Hollywood life and Trevor can play baseball"--
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