baseball

An exploration of baseball, which covers equipment, positions, ballparks, strategy, statistics, the science of pitches and swings, how players stay fit, and remarkable moments and developments in the history of the game.

During a summer of baseball and baseball card trading, eleven-year-old Andy makes discoveries about his father, his grandfather, who played professional baseball, and himself.

A narrative poem about a celebrated baseball player who strikes out at the crucial moment of a game.

Chad is thrilled to be a batboy for the Pine City Porcupines even though the team is not doing well, his fellow batboy is less than thrilled about the job, and his favorite player seems to be jinxed.

Ruth Marini becomes the first woman professional baseball player, advancing from the minor league to pitch for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Playing baseball was the one thing that made Nick Crandall feel at home until he found acceptance with adoptive parents, but he faces a new struggle to fit in when he becomes the first seventh-grader ever to make the varsity baseball team.

A compendium of baseball history and fast facts that includes team, player, and manager profiles; the rules; jargon; information on the major and minor leagues, Negro leagues, and college, women's, and youth baseball; and details on broadcasters, ballparks, and collectibles.

This text gives a brief history of baseball, highlighting records, controversies, and scandles; as well as profiling key contemporary players of the game.

Explains the fundamental skills of baseball, and discusses defensive and offensive strategy.

When the star pitcher of the Negro East St. Louis Cubs is found lynched after a win in 1922, Mickey Rawlings has to do everything he can to track down the killer and prevent a repeat of the deadly race riots of 1917; if he can stay alive.