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.
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.