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Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.
Author
Series
Matt Christopher sports fiction volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Sylvester Coddmyer III is having a dismal baseball season until he takes advice from a mysterious ex-ballplayer named Cheeko and starts to play more aggressively.
Author
Language
English
Description
In Brooklyn in the late 1940s, adolescent Michael Devlin is a dutiful son to his widowed mother and a conscientious altar boy at the parish church. One day, he meets Rabbi Judah Hirsch, a chance encounter that inaugurates a friendship with vast consequences, good and bad, for both of them. Michael lost his father in the war, and the rabbi, a recent immigrant to this country, lost his wife. The threads of their connection widen and strengthen as the...
10) The big field
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too.
13) Boys in control
Author
Series
Hatfords and Malloys volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008, c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Once again the Hatford brothers and the Mallory sisters find themselves pitted against each other when embarrassing pictures of the boys turn up in the girls' basement, and the boys try to figure out how to get them back.
14) Baseball fever
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Ezra tries to convince his scholarly father that his baseball fever is not wasting his mind.
Author
Publisher
Oak Knoll
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
At a 1931 barnstorming exhibition game in Tennessee, a seventeen-year-old pitcher for the Chattanooga Lookouts struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig back to back. Her name was Jackie Mitchell--"organized baseball's first girl pitcher." On September 9, 1965, Sandy Koufax made baseball history by pitching his fourth perfect game. In July 1970, a stripper rushed onto the field at Riverfront Stadium to kiss Johnny Bench, temporarily disrupting a game attended...
Author
Publisher
Scobre Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Hanks has always dreamed of playing Major League baseball, and when he is accepted into the Minors, he thinks his dream is finally coming true, but he soon learns that it will take more determination and hard work than he anticipated.