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Based in part on the life of baseball legend Ty Cobb, this book belongs in the pantheon of great baseball novels.
John Barr is the kind of player who isn't supposed to exist anymore. An all-around superstar, he plays the game with a single-minded ferocity that makes his New York Mets team all but invincible. Yet Barr himself is a mystery with no past, no friends, no women, and no interests outside hitting a baseball as hard and as far as he can....
3) Comeback
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The story of the San Francisco Giants baseball pitcher who came back from cancer to pitch again before breaking his arm during the game.
4) October 1964
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The bestselling follow-up to the classic The Summer of '49, illuminating the heart-pounding 1964 World Series between the Yankees and Cardinals David Halberstam, an avid sports writer with an investigative reporter's tenacity, superbly details the end of the fifteen-year reign of the New York Yankees in October 1964. That October found the Yankees going head-to-head with the St. Louis Cardinals for the World Series pennant. Expertly weaving the narrative...
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This book is built around a detailed reconstruction of the seventh game of the 1955 World Series, on the short list of great moments in baseball history. One October afternoon, something happened in New York City that had never happened before and never would again: the Brooklyn Dodgers won the world championship of baseball. Everything that had gone wrong before went gloriously right. Pitch by pitch and inning by inning, Oliphant re-creates a relentless...
6) Plunked
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IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
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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.
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Chronicles the life of baseball player Derek Jeter, discussing his childhood, struggles in the minor leagues, early days with the Yankees, rivalry with his former best friend A-Rod, rise to the top of the major league, personal relationships, career accomplishments, and other related topics.
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
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"Structured to mirror the flow of a baseball game, THROWBACK covers everything that happens both in plain sight and behind the scenes (or sometime in whispered invective at the plate or in the bullpen), from the players' pregame routines and the pitcher's warm-up tosses, to the hidden signs the catcher and pitcher use to communicate to outwit hitters; from infielders' often amusing conversations with men at first and third bases, to the specific positions...
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"Every little kid who's ever taken the mound in Little League dreams of someday getting the ball for Game Seven of the World Series. Ron Darling got to live that dream - only it didn't go exactly as planned. In Game 7, 1986, the award-winning baseball analyst looks back at what might have been a signature moment in his career, and reflects on the ways professional athletes must sometimes shoulder a personal disappointment as their teams find a way...
14) Mickey & me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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When Joe travels back in time to 1944, he meets the Milwaukee Chicks, one of the only all-female professional baseball teams in the history of the game.
16) Baseball blowup
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Malcolm loves baseball and science, but his teammates are not always pleased with the ideas he comes up with--until he uses science to come up with a winning pitch, the knuckleball.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"Think big league baseball begins with the opening pitch? Think again! In this Sports Illustrated Kids book, go behind the scenes of a typical game day in professional baseball-from prepping the diamond and welcoming fans to hawking hot dogs and broadcasting from the booth. This fast-paced, fact-filled book will give baseball fans, young and old, a whole new perspective on America's favorite pastime"--
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IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
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After his older brother is killed in a car crash, Peter Lee's mother is paralyzed by grief and his traditional Chinese father seems emotionally frozen; but Peter hopes that if he joins a Little League team in Pittsburgh he can reawaken the passion for baseball that all the members of his family used to share.
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