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Author
Series
Pub. Date
1994
Description
The Second World War causes turmois in baseball as its best players enlist. But in 1941, before the war began, baseball has a summer better than anyone could remember. Ted Williams and "Joltin' Joe" DiMaffio bat the lights out while the Brooklyn Dodgers win their first pennant in 20 years. But baseball's most poignant moment arrives when the Dodgers' Branch Rickey forces intergration by singing the immortal Jackie Robinson. With heroic dignity,...
9) Hank Aaron
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Profiles the man who replaced Babe Ruth as "America's Home Run King" and also set records for RBIs and total bases run, despite the pressures of being one of the few black major league players in the 1950s.
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 5
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When Joe Stoshack's dad ends up in the hospital after a car accident , he has tow words he has to say to his son,: Mickey Mantle. For Stosh has a special power with a baseball card in hand, he can travel back in time. And his dad has a rare card - Mantle's valuable 1951 rookie card. "I've been thinking about it for a long time. Go back to 1951. You;'re the only one who can do it," Dad whispers. That night Stosh grips the card and prepares for another...
Author
Series
Ninja baseball Kyuma! volume 1
Pub. Date
c2004, 2009
Description
"Kyuma and his dog Inui live in the mountains, where Kyuma trains every day to become a great ninja. But when Kyuma mistakes a baseball captain for his master, the local baseball team ends up with its first ninja player! Can a ninja step up to the plate and learn how to play ball? Find out in Ninja Baseball Kyuma!" -- from publisher's web site.
17) Baseball great
Author
Series
Baseball great novels volume 1
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
All twelve-year-old Josh wants to do is play baseball but when his father, a minor league pitcher, signs him up for a youth championship team, Josh finds himself embroiled in a situation with potentially illegal consequences.
19) Satch & Me
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"You wanna know who threw the fastest pitch ever? " Many baseball players claim that Satchel Paige was the fastest pitcher in the history of the game. Stosh and his coach, Flip Valentini, are on a mission to find out. With radar gun in tow, they travel back to 1942 and watch Satch pitch to power hitter Josh Gibson in the Negro League World Series. They soon learn that everything about Satch is fast-whether it's his talking, driving, or getaways. But...
Author
Series
Baseball great novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Twelve-year-old Josh looks forward to facing a true rival in the Baseball Hall of Fame tournament, but first he and his friends Jaden and Benji put themselves at great risk trying to expose the truth about a conspiracy to bribe the head umpire.