baseball

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baseball

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Porkopolis
2007
In the late 1800s, a baseball with strange powers belonging to their late father works wonders for three children and a travelling baseball team which must raise $10,000.

The Prince of Fenway Park

2009
In the fall of 2004, twelve-year-old Oscar Egg is sent to live with his father in a strange netherworld under Boston's Fenway Park, where he joins the fairies, pooka, banshee, and other beings that are trapped there, waiting for someone to break the eighty-six-year-old curse that has prevented the Boston Red Sox from winning a World Series.

Babe and me

a baseball card adventure
2000
With their ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe and his father have the opportunity to find out whether Babe Ruth really did call his shot when he hit that home run in the third game of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs.

Shakespeare bats cleanup

2003
When a fourteen-year-old baseball player catches mononucleosis, he discovers that keeping a journal and experimenting with poetry not only helps fill the time, it also helps him deal with life, love, and loss.

Casey at the bat

1995
The classic baseball poem, illustrated, brings to life the drama of America's favorite pastime.

Rules of the game

baseball poems
2009
Presents illustrated poetry about baseball from Marjorie Maddox.

No cream puffs

2008
In 1980, when twelve-year-old Madison, who loves to play baseball, decides to play in her town's baseball league, she never envisions the uproar it causes when she becomes the first girl to join.

Change-up

baseball poems
2009
A collection of illustrated poems by Gene Fehler on various baseball subjects, such as pitching, batting, winning, losing, superstitions, and spectators.

The desperado who stole baseball

2009
In 1881, the scrappy, rough-and-tumble baseball team in a California mining town enlists the help of a quick-witted twelve-year-old orphan and the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid to win a big game against the National League Champion Chicago White Stockings.

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