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Strike out!

1996
Baseball lover Catherine is accustomed to being on a winning team, but this year she is stuck with a group that includes goof-offs, bumblers, and a girl who hates to get dirty, and worst of all, Catherine's mother is the team's coach.

Ollie's team and the million dollar mistake

1973
A bank robbery and a banking mistake that adds a million dollars to the sixth grade's bank account help Ollie discover his real problem in playing baseball.

Johnny No Hit

1977
Threatened by a beating if he hits against Roy's pitching, Johnny almost loses a ballgame for his team.

Heather hits her first home run

1989
A little girl who just started playing tee-ball gets a chance for her first hit when the bases are loaded and her team has two outs.

Jeffrey's ghost and the leftover baseball team

1984
A baseball team of children no one else wants on a team turns into a team of winners with the help of a friendly boy ghost.

Take me out to the ball game

2006
A grandmother takes her two granddaughters to a ballgame. Includes music and text to the song "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" (words by Jack Norworth; music by Albert von Tilzer).

Joey Pigza loses control

2011
Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.

Hurricane heat

2013
Years after Travis's parents die in a car crash and he and his younger sister, Amanda, are separated, Travis sets out to search for her at the risk of losing an opportunity for a future baseball career.

The original Colored House of David

1981
A seventeen-year-old boy convinces a black baseball team to take him along on their tour as a relief player, but he must pretend he is a deaf-mute albino.

About the B'nai Bagels

2008
Mark Setzer tells about his troubles in general and in particular his misfortunes on the little league team managed by his mother and coached by his brother.

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