baseball

As springtime comes to Pleasant Valley, everyone who is anyone, which is of course everyone, plays ball.

Tells the story of the Negro Leagues when Andrew "Rube" Foster, the Father of Black Baseball, organized the first Negro League in 1920, to when talented players like Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and James "Cool Papa" Bell were finally able to show their stuff.

Twelve-year-old Danny thinks that there is something very familiar about the girl who plays shortstop on the team he faces during the championship series, and his curiosity leads him to a surprising discovery about his own adoption.

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.

Emma plans to convince her older brother's baseball team, the Boonsville Bombers, to let her play with them.

A fatherless white boy, who shares with an old black man an enthusiasm for Jackie Robinson, takes a ball autographed by Jackie to his elderly friend's death bed.

Eleven-year-old Jason, believing the school custodian Mack Henry to be Buck McHenry, a famous pitcher from the old Negro League, tries to enlist him as a coach for his Little League team by revealing his identity to the world.

Recreates a Brooklyn Dodgers baseball game played against their rivals the New York Giants in 1946.

Marty loses his lucky baseball bat, and his confidence along with it, and wonders if he will recover both in time to help the Tigers win the championship.

Cam uses her photographic memory to identify the person who stole a valuable autographed baseball.