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.
Griffith, Ruby, and Graham Payne hit the road with the Travelin' Nine barnstorming baseball team in 1899, armed with a mysterious ball given to them by their Uncle Owen that their dad used before his death, and that gives them unexplained power.
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.
Kyle fakes a catch that leads his baseball team to a league championship, but he does not feel good about winning by cheating and must make a difficult decision to tell the truth. Includes an account of the sportsmanship of Christy Mathewson, a pitcher who played professional baseball in the early 1900s.
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.
