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Everyone loves an underdog. That’s why we’re drawn to sports movies—there’s something special about the magic depicted in Remember The Titans, Miracle, or even something silly like The Waterboy. But good sports books, and we mean good ones, go even deeper.
2642) Wind up
Author
Series
The contract (Derek Jeter) volume 8
Publisher
Jeter Children's, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
170 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In baseball, numbers are everywhere! So, grab your ball cap and get ready to be wowed by all the stats, digits, and dimensions. You'll be the brainiest batter and sharpest pitcher out there!" -- Back cover.
"A kid-friendly exploration of how math and statistics are used in baseball"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Simon Spotlight edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (32 unnumbered pages) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Springtime means it's baseball season, and Charlie Brown wants this to be the year his team finally wins a game! Charlie Brown's only option is to make some trades to improve his team. He calls Peppermint Patty to make a deal, but she tells him there's only one player on his team she wants, "he funny-looking little kid with the big nose." Snoopy! Peppermint Patty offers Charlie Brown five good players for Snoopy. But will Charlie Brown trade his beloved...
2645) Curveball
Author
Series
The contract (Derek Jeter) volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
While spending the summer with his extended family in New Jersey, Derek finds a team he can play baseball with and earns money to take his best friend to a Yankees game.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Presents profiles of fourteen Latino baseball players who, from 1900 through the 1960s, were pioneers of the sport in their home countries and the United States.
2647) Extra innings
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
176 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a tragic airplane crash that claims the lives of most of his family, sixteen-year-old Tate goes to live with his wealthy great-grandfather and his adopted black great-aunt Vidalia and he finds unexpected solace in the stories of her childhood spent travelling with a Depression-era Negro baseball team.
2648) Stealing home
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1992.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
153 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Though they still listen to baseball and go fishing, Thomas and his grandfather find life in their small house in Florida changed when Great-aunt Linzy comes to stay.
2649) Baseball fever
Author
Series
Publisher
Treasure Bay
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A boy who loves to play baseball is disappointed to get sick and miss the first game of the season, but his friends on the team do their best to keep him filled in.
2650) Everybody wants some!!
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in the world of 1980s college life, it follows a group of college baseball players as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood. Get ready for the best weekend ever.
2651) The Wrigley riddle
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
590L
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
During a visit to the Chicago Cubs' Wrigley field, cousins Mike and Kate investigate why someone has been tampering with the famous ivy vines growing on the outfield walls. Includes historical note.
2652) The Babe & I
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
590L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
While helping his family make ends meet during the Depression by selling newspapers, a boy meets Babe Ruth.
2653) Fast break
Author
Series
The contract (Derek Jeter) volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
155 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
2654) Babe Ruth
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
91 pages : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of one of the greatest baseball players, who changed the way the game was played, made America believe in a sport that was beginning to wane, and overcame his demons to lead the Yankees to championship status.
2655) The only real game
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the power of baseball for people in remote and troubled places. The once princely state of Manipur, in volatile northeast India, defies gun violence, trafficking, and HIV/AIDS through a surprising passion for America's national pastime. Manipur entered the Indian Union under protest in 1949, triggering a corrosive separatist conflict. For decades baseball has delivered release from daily struggles and a dream for healing a wounded society....
2657) The bat boy & his violin
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Reginald is more interested in practicing his violin than in his father's job managing the worst team in the Negro Leagues, but when Papa makes him the bat boy and his music begins to lead the team to victory, Papa realizes the value of his son's passion.
2658) Bark at the park
Author
Series
Leila and Nugget mystery volume 3
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This year's Bark at the Park event at the Middleburg Red Dogs baseball stadium could not have gotten off to a worse start. The first pitch hasn't even been thrown yet, and there's already been a furry intruder, a dog stampede, and a kidnapped mascot. Now it's up to Leila and Kait, along with their dogs Nugget and Baxter, to rescue Red Dogs' mascot and save Bark at the Park. It's a race to solve the mystery before the final out!" -- page 4 of cover....
Author
Publisher
Strebor Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Strebor Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Secrets abound in a love triangle between a multi-millionaire baseball star, his wife, and the groupie who's trying to ruin their marriage--if a long-held secret doesn't destroy it first. Cheryl Blanton is married to a superstar baseball player who has won three Gold Gloves and recently signed a $120 million, five-year contract with the New York Yankees. He's wealthy and handsome, and all the groupies are after him, but Cheryl is gorgeous and her...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1977, middle-schooler Josie secretly takes on her aging grandfather's financial problems while also helping her friend Winky bail his Major League Baseball idol out of the town jail.
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