Allen plays in an important baseball game and faces the challenge of pitching against Hank "The Tank" Steele while his grandpa, who has never missed a game before, fights for his life at the hospital.
When Kyle Walker and Ryan Rogan find themselves at odds because Ryan's hot temper is making it hard for him to accept that Kyle can catch Ryan's fastball and because Kyle believes Ryan beaned him on purpose last season, Kyle wonders how he can resolve the situation.
Once again the Hatford brothers and the Malloy sisters find themselves pitted against each other when embarrassing pictures of the boys turn up in the girls' basement, and the boys try to figure out how to get them back.
In Brooklyn, New York, in 1947, a boy learns about discrimination and tolerance as he and his deaf father share their enthusiasm over baseball and the Dodgers' first baseman, Jackie Robinson.
Freshman catcher Robbie Belmont sees the spirit of Redstone University's baseball team threatened by a serious feud between him and star pitcher Eagle Wilson.
One remarkable summer Billy Heywood learns what it is like to be an adult, while the baseball players on the team he has inherited rediscover their youthful enthusiasm for the game.
