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1) Calico Joe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this novel, the careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it is what happens off the field that makes this story a classic.
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After Cesar's major league career is cut short, he returns to his native Monterey, Mexico. Once back home, a group of impoverished baseball-loving kids recruit him to coach their ragtag team. Together, they beat the odds and overcome hardships and bigotry to compete in the 1957 Little League World Series.
9) Play ball!
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
22 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Martha helps her friend Truman learn how to catch a ball for the big baseball game.
Author
Publisher
Viking Studio Bks
Pub. Date
[c1992]
Physical Desc
210p illus (part col)
Language
English
Description
A photographic history of America's lost baseball stadiums, from Ebbets Field to Comiskey Part, reawakens the spirit of the greatest moments in baseball and pays homage to the sport's local origins
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The fate of a small California town rests on the outcome of one baseball game, and Tom Gallagher hopes to lead his team to victory with the secrets of the now disgraced player, Dante Del Gato.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
At the age of thirteen, Mo'ne Davis became the first female pitcher to win a game in the Little League World Series and earned a place in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Now her shutout jersey hangs in the museum in Cooperstown, New York.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brother and Sister Bear are such good baseball players that Papa Bear decides they should try out for the Bear Country Cub League.
Author
Series
Little League library volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1966]
Physical Desc
186 p. ports. 24 cm.
Language
English
18) I got it!
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In this wordless picture book, a young outfielder imagines all the terrifying ways he might not catch the baseball, and one way that he can.
19) The closer
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Danny Connelly, the Dulaney Orioles' back-up pitcher, must step up to the plate and out of his brother's shadow to become the dependable closer his team needs"--
20) Heat
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
220 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.