Anthony, David
Summary: The heroes' baseball team, the Traverse City Salmon, are playing the Garden City Sprouts in the little league championship game. The Sprouts throw a curve ball and turn into pinch-hitting plant monsters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sigil Pub. 2009
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ANTGutman, Dan.
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GUTMaddox, Jake
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MADWallace, Rich
Summary: Seventh-grader Javon is the relief pitcher for his summer league baseball team and they are in the championship tournament--trouble is there is one player on the team they are playing that he cannot seem to get out.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Magic Wagon 2016
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC WALPrice, Dorothy H.
Summary: J.C. is excited to join the new baseball team at the community center and show off his pitching skills, but his enthusiasm turns to disappointment when Vicky is chosen to take the mound first.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PRIStroman, Marcus
Summary: Marcus, a young baseball pitcher, learns that perfect games only come with a lot of practice--and some strikeouts.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STRKlages, Ellen
Summary: In 1957, ten-year-old Katy Gordon fights to be allowed to play Little League baseball and uses what she learns about civil rights and the history of female baseball players to challenge the league ban on girls.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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Summary: "Babe Ruth's baseball glove goes missing before a Baltimore Orioles game. It's up to cousins Mike and Kate to find its whereabouts"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BPM 15Scattergood, Augusta.
Summary: Sixth-grader Theo leaves everything behind to live with his Uncle Chester, a Vietnam War veteran and loner, in Destiny, Florida, but he is drawn to play the piano in Miss Sister's dance school and soon makes friends with the feisty Anabel, a baseball fanatic who invites Theo to help solve a mystery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SCAGreen, Tim
Summary: "A troubled kid finds his bearings in a new school after a baseball coach offers him a spot on the team"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GREKelly, David A. (David Andrew)
Summary: Cousins Mike and Kate are at Boston's Fenway Park when the Red Sox's star hitter discovers that his lucky baseball bat has been stolen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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Summary: Jackson loves baseball, but a bee in the outfield causes him to miss a fly ball, and the game is stopped until the bee finally departs.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN JOVWiesner, David
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE WIEDahl, Michael.
Summary: In rhyming text a little boy, home from a game, bids goodnight to all the sights and sounds of a baseball game.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Picture Window Books 2013
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Summary: "Allen's grandpa has never missed a baseball game until tonight. While Allen plays his most important game ever, Grandpa fights for his life at the hospital. Allen wants to win the game for his grandpa, but he's facing his biggest challenge, Hank "The Tank" Steele"--Unedited summary from book.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MADLies, Brian.
Summary: Two teams of bats play an exciting nighttime baseball game.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE LIEAbrahams, Peter
Summary: With the game on the line on opening day, nervous rookie Thumby Duckling steps up to the plate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Children's Books 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ABRKlages, Ellen
Summary: In 1957, inspired by what she is learning about civil rights and armed with knowledge of female ball players, ten-year-old Katy Gordon fights to be allowed to play Little League baseball.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KLAGreen, Tim
Summary: Jalen DeLuca can analyze and predict almost exactly what a pitcher is going to pitch, but without the statistics he has on the pro players, Jalen finds success to be extremely challenging, especially with all the extra drama of his mom coming back into his life.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Companyt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC GRESchrempp, Skyler
Summary: "Dust Bowl refugee Gloria Mae Willard finds herself uprooted and working on a California peach orchard, where she tries to join the secret, all-boys baseball team that she's desperate to play on"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022
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Summary: After a near-fatal car accident, twelve-year-old Ryder's mother needs an operation they cannot afford and while a new friend tries to raise funds, Ryder travels with a grouchy, disabled neighbor, from Yankee Stadium to Turner Field seeking the major league baseball player who might be Ryder's father.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC GREPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: Ana & Andrew are finally old enough to play team sports! Andrew tries out for the baseball team. When he is nervous before his first game, Papa tells him to think of Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play modern Major League Baseball. (Amazon).
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLAMauleón, Daniel
Summary: Determined to be a great baseball player like others in his family, Fernando needs their help to regain his confidence after his coach tells him to steal a base and he fails. Includes discussion questions, information about baseball, and glossary.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MADMaddox, Jake
Summary: Malcolm is used to being the star first-baseman of his middle school team, but this year he has serious competition from a former benchwarmer, so he finds himself stuck in the outfield--and having to learn to put the team first.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books a Capstone imprint 2015