baseball stories

Centerfielder Corey Maduro has to deal with the humiliation of having an overly involved and short-tempered father in the stands.

After being cut from their team, four student athletes create a fan club and investigate rumors that an opposing squad is cheating.

Ricky's mom tries to help him practice, but Ricky won't make the high-school team unless his neighbor, a washed-up 1978 World Series pitcher, agrees to coach him.

Recounts thrity-four unusual baseball events including the man who caught a ball thrown from the top of the Washington Monument.

Dodger manager Spike Russell's efforts to rally his team to a pennant victory are threatened by a scheming club secretary and the seeming irresponsibility of a star rookie pitcher.

Dandi enjoys nothing more than baseball, and so after the boys at school tell her their lunchtime game is now boys only, she enters an essay contest hoping to become a bat boy for the Kansas City A's, not realizing the contest is for boys only. Includes author's note on Title IX.

Walter Dibble desperately wants to play basketball, but he can't dribble, so his friends Marshall and Art suggest they join in a neighborhood baseball game to get his mind off his problem; but when Walter takes the mound, everyone is in for a surprise.

Nicky loves living in Philadelphia with his friends and baseball team, but one day dad surprises the family with a move to "the country".