baseball

Eleven-year-old Thomas talks his grandfather into driving all the way across Florida to meet Coco Grimes, an old man who remembers Negro League baseball, but the actual encounter proves to be bittersweet.

While playing baseball, a boy wonders what it would be like to be different jungle animals.

When the umpire at the baseball game fund-raising is accused of stealing a collection of autographed baseballs, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose try to prove his innocence.

The author chronicles Babe Ruth's role in saving baseball in the 1920s after the Black Sox scandal nearly destroyed the credibility of the game, illuminating the combination of skill, bravado, and charm that made him the most famous and beloved player of his generation.

Profiles twelve athletes who nearly broke records set by some of the greatest baseball players that ever played the game.

A collection of essays by baseball's former National League president, Bart Giamatti.