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The day after Mighty Casey's strikeout, the Mudville Nine are in a crucial game when a relief pitcher, a girl, is sent in and quickly proves herself to the crowd using moves from football, tennis, and soccer.

In this interactive mystery, Frank and Joe take a swing at solving the crime when their Little League team's playbook goes missing.

When Xavier's father returns to Boston after serving ten years in federal prison, tensions quickly mount and Xavier's anger explodes on the baseball field, making it less likely that he will achieve his dream of playing in the major leagues than that he will follow his father's path.

A photo-illustrated collection of baseball trivia questions and answers. Includes a trivia quiz.

Simple text and pictures introduce readers to baseball.

The Baseball Whisperer traces the remarkable story of Merl Eberly and his Clarinda A?s baseball team, which he tended over the course of five decades, transforming them from a town team to a collegiate summer league powerhouse. Along with Ozzie Smith, future manager Bud Black, and star player Von Hayes, Merl developed scores of major league players (six of which are currently playing). In the process, Merl taught them to be men, insisting on hard work, integrity, and responsibility.

On January 29th, 2013, an expos? by Miami New Times reporter Tim Elfrink set the sports world on fire. Elfrink revealed that a Miami clinic, Biogenesis, had been supplying illegal performance enhancing drugs ? PEDs ? to many of the nation?s top baseball stars. One name stood out among all the others: Alex Rodriguez, the highest-earning player in the game. Over the next year and more the story would unravel with incredible details about tanning salon robberies, coded text messages, and furtive steroid injections in the men?s room. Both news-breaking sports journalism and wild South Florida noir, Blood Sport is simultaneously a revelatory record of the steroid and PED era?s continuing evolution and a call to arms for how to end it ? this time, for good.

"When war is declared against Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, everything changes for the Sakamoto family. They are banished to an isolated internment camp, and Kenji's hopes of becoming an Asahi baseball player like his brother are overtaken by the harsh realities of his new life"--Dust jacket.

A collection of baseball-themed "Peanuts" comic strips, featuring Charlie Brown, his dog Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang.

The day after Mighty Casey's strikeout, the Mudville Nine are in a crucial game when a relief pitcher--a girl--is sent in and quickly proves herself to the crowd using moves from football, tennis, and soccer.