Discusses baseball skills, with techniques for batting, base running, sliding, pitching, and fielding, and provides tips and tricks for young players from the pros.
While trying to ask Uncle Pete to coach the Peach Street Mudders, Zero discovers that he can throw a slider when there's a big bandage on his injured thumb.
When his Little League team gets a coach who knows nothing about baseball, seventh grader Corey is dismayed to see the team taken over by the coach's pushy twelve-year-old granddaughter.
A fatherless white boy, who shares with an old black man an enthusiasm for the Brooklyn Dodgers and first baseman, Jackie Robinson, takes a ball autographed by Jackie to his elderly friend's death bed.
Traces the history of baseball, which was first played in a form resembling the modern game in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1846, and first played by professional players in 1869.
Ninja boy Kyuma is introduced to baseball and tries to learn how to play, but struggles with the concept of it being a game and not a new type of battle.
