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.
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.
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, 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.
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.
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.
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.