baseball

Presents a collection of documents, including newspaper and magazine articles, private letters, official league communications, and others, that chronicle events in baseball from 1945 to 1972.

Presents an account of Major League baseball from 1972 to 2008 with essays covering key topics, and including stories both pertinent and curious from newspapers and periodicals within a contextual framework.

Presents simple facts about baseball, including equipment, rules, positions, and strategies.

"Introduces the basics of T-ball, the equipment needed to play, and the rules of the game"--Provided by publisher.

"Developed by literacy experts and educators for students in PreK through grade two, this book introduces beginning readers to baseball through simple, predictable text and related photos"--Provided by publisher.

"As Derek and his team tackle playoffs, everyone deals with the pressure in different ways. And practice gets intense! One of Derek's teammates, Avery, starts being especially hard on herself. She isn't even enjoying the game anymore. Can Derek and the rest of the team pull her out of her funk?"--Provided by publisher.

"Rhyno the rhino and the Princeton Turtles are on the baseball diamond. How will Rhyno's teammates help him persevere and win the game against the Sandyville Jays?"--Back cover.

Twelve-year old Black girl Charley, who dreams of becoming the first professional female pitcher, must navigate adolescence during the turbulent segregation era and the beginning of the Great Migration.

Thirteen-year-old Alexandra "Al" Olsen, a seventh grader at Brinkley Middle School, tries out for the boys' baseball team at her school. The new coach welcomes Al and her skills to the team alongside her nonbinary friend, Julian Veras. However, when Al is interviewed on local television for being the first girl on Brinkley's team, it leads to problems with her teammates. The team will have to solve their problems and join together if they want to defend their championship title.

In 1939 North Carolina, an all-Black baseball team "trespasses" on the whites-only baseball field, and the resulting racial outrage can only be resolved on the mound.