King, Kevin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINHiguera, Donna Barba
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HIGDean, James
Summary: "Pete the Cat is ready to play baseball! Pete's team, the Rocks, is playing the Rolls. But when the game doesn't go Pete's way, what will Pete do?"--From the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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Summary: In rhyming text a little boy, home from a game, bids goodnight to all the sights and sounds of a baseball game.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Picture Window Books 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DAHGrisham, John.
Summary: The careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2012
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEFChristopher, Matt
Summary: Eleven-year-old cousins Carter Jones and Liam McGrath must both deal with grudges that threaten to break apart their All-Star teams during post-season play.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC CHRKluger, Steve.
Summary: A boy describes growing up Jewish in a mainly Catholic neighborhood in 1930s Brooklyn. The story is told in letters to a celebrated baseball player with whom the boy has struck up a correspondence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLULasser, Scott.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2000
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 1997
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Summary: James McConnell's one wish is that his nine-year-old son will finally be healthy enough to play a game of catch. Then he and his wife, Emily, receive news they've dreaded: Aaron's cancer has relapsed. As the family steels themselves for a draining treatment regimen in yet another hospital, Aaron receives the gift of a lifetime--a personal visit from one of his favorite professional baseball...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 2014
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Summary: Gifted baseball player Roy Hobbs, his career derailed by a youthful indiscretion, makes a stunning comeback in later life, but finds himself still struggling against the temptations that would bring him to ruin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUPConnelly, Michael
Summary: Baseball is the background for both stories. Two Bagger is the story of a parolee who feels he owes the gang for helping him when he was in jail, but he learns that they expect him to kill someone at Dodger Stadium. Chickasaw Charlie Hoke is a story of a former Major Leaguer who is trying to land a job as a celebrity host at a casino in Las Vegas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Phoenix Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CONNemens, Emily
Summary: Jason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions, stationed with the rest of his team in the punishingly hot Arizona desert for their annual spring training. Handsome, famous, and talented, Goodyear is nonetheless coming apart at the seams. And the coaches, writers, wives, girlfriends, petty criminals, and diehard fans following his every move are eager to find out why--as they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Nemens 2020Kinsella, W. P.
Summary: Gideon Clarke, like his father before him, tries to prove that the Chicago Cubs played a game of over two thousand innings against the amateur league Iowa Baseball Confederacy in the summer of 1908 even though no one else seems to remember the game or the Confederacy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1986