Hubie, who desperately wants to make the little league team in Spring, receives a new mitt from his mom and practices hard, but when he becomes sick, his big opportunity might escape him.
For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be cancelled due to their county's anniversary pageant, but after the death of the old man to whom twelve-year-old star pitcher House Jackson has been secretly reading for a year, House uncovers secrets about the man and the history of baseball in Aurora County that could fix everything.
Although adoption has taken them out of the institution where they grew up, eleven-year-old T.J. and his younger brother Moondance remain involved with their friend Mop's relentless attempts to become adopted herself and to wreak revenge on their baseball rivals, the obnoxious Eagles.
Because of illness, Little Dinosaur's team is going to have to forfeit their baseball game to Bully Dinosaur's team until Baby Tiger and Baby Stegosaurus step in to save the day.
Twelve-year-old Nick Garc?a dreams of winning MVP of his summer baseball league, of finding a cure for his sister, of meeting his hero, Yankee pitcher Michael Arroyo, and of no longer living in fear of the government and ICE agents.
"When Isaac joins the notoriously terrible Middleton High baseball team, he gets frustrated by the lack of effort from his teammates. But then he learns the team is cursed and becomes determined to end it"--Provided by the publisher.
Connor, an All-Star third baseman on his Babe Ruth League team, has a terrible temper, but when the sports editor of the school paper threatens to publish an embarrassing story about his tantrums, Connor must make a change.
Eighth-grader Jack Lerner relies on pitching fast balls until a young college coach teaches him that throwing the heat may not be the best way to win games.
