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The brothers

2021
"Tyler and his mom and stepdad are fans of Major League Baseball. When the star pitcher on their favorite team signs Tyler's baseball, Tyler proudly displays it in a case that he keeps on his dresser. Tyler's stepbrother is not into baseball. And he doesn't seem to like Tyler either. When the baseball disappears, Tyler knows he didn't lose it. So who took it?"--Publishers website.

The missing baseball

Eight-year-old twins Zach and Zoe follow clues to find Zach's missing baseball, signed by his favorite major league player, while competing in Spirit Week events at school.
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Knuckleball Ned

2014
Teased by the Foul Ball Gang, a young baseball learns that his differences make him unique and strong.

Underworld

2007
A fictional survey of the Cold War years as seen through the eyes of protagonists Nick Shay, an executive with a waste-management firm, and his one-time lover Klara Sax, an artist.

Everyone's hero

the movie storybook
2006
With the help of Screwie, a foul-mouthed ball, Yankee Irving must find Babe Ruth's missing bat Darlin' before the last out of the inning or the New York Yankees will lose the World Series.

Play Ball!

By Cal Ripken, Jr. and Mike Bryan
Adaptation of: the only way I know. A simple biography of the highly honored player for the Baltimore Orioles, who in 1995 broke the record for playing the most games in a row.

Underworld

1999
Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life; she is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence.Underworld is a story of men and women together and apart, seen in deep, clear detail and in stadium-sized panoramas, shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of the Cold War. It is a novel that accepts every challenge of these extraordinary times -- Don DeLillo's greatest and most powerful work of fiction.

The ball

Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball and the marketing of the American dream
1999
Profiles Mark McGwire's record-breaking 70th home run baseball, the man who caught it, and the resulting controversy it caused among baseball fans.

The unwilling umpire

2004
When the umpire at the baseball game fundraiser is accused of stealing a collection of autographed baseballs, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose try to prove his innocence.
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