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1) Home run
Author
Series
Baseball great novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Josh's life has just fallen apart. His father will no longer be coaching the travel baseball team and is moving to Florida, forcing his mom and little sister to move into a small apartment on the wrong side of town. To make matters worse, the new coach of the travel team is an unforgiving drill sergeant. But then Benji tells Josh of a home-run derby in which the winner gets a brand-new house. All Josh has to do to qualify is hit twenty home runs during...
Author
Series
Baseball great novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Twelve-year-old Josh looks forward to facing a true rival in the Baseball Hall of Fame tournament, but first he and his friends Jaden and Benji put themselves at great risk trying to expose the truth about a conspiracy to bribe the head umpire.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
"An average kid with an above average talent for predicting baseball pitches tries to help his favorite player out of a slump in this entertaining novel from bestselling authors Tim Green and Derek Jeter. Jalen DeLuca loves baseball. Unfortunately his dad can't afford to keep him on the travel team. His dad runs a diner and makes enough to cover the bills, but there isn't enough to cover any extras. So Jalen decides to take matters into his own hands...
Author
Series
Baseball great novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Determined to play in the Little League World Series, twelve-year-old Josh struggles to concentrate on his game and be the team's leader while also trying to cope with his parents' impending divorce.
Author
Series
Baseball great novels volume 1
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
All twelve-year-old Josh wants to do is play baseball but when his father, a minor league pitcher, signs him up for a youth championship team, Josh finds himself embroiled in a situation with potentially illegal consequences.
Author
Series
Baseball Geeks adventures volume 3
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"The Baseball Geeks are on their way to Fenway Park to appear on a reality TV show. Joey, Kevin, and Omar are being tested on all of their baseball knowledge, but will they be able to beat the competition and win the Fenway Challenge?"--
Author
Series
Baseball Geeks adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Baseball Geeks Joey, Kevin, and Omar find themselves in a tough situation when Kevin's dad tells the boys that he stole something very important from the baseball Hall of Fame. How will the boys get from Ohio to New York and save Kevin's dad from getting in serious trouble?"--
11) Mike Trout
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The story of the Los Angeles Angels Rookie of the Year and MVP award-winning hitter.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"When black baseball players were unofficially barred from Major League Baseball they created their own leagues -- the Negro Leagues. This included such baseball players as Andrew "Rube" Foster, "Smokey Joe" Williams, Wilber "Bullet Joe" Rogan, Dick "Cannonball" Redding and Leroy "Satchel" Paige."
13) Double play
Author
Series
Baseball genius volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When New York Yankee James "JY" Yager tries to show that he can still hit in the majors without the help of twelve-year-old Jalen's baseball genius, Jalen focuses on his own baseball career as he tries to carve out a spot with the Rockton Rockets.
16) Satch & Me
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 7
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"You wanna know who threw the fastest pitch ever? " Many baseball players claim that Satchel Paige was the fastest pitcher in the history of the game. Stosh and his coach, Flip Valentini, are on a mission to find out. With radar gun in tow, they travel back to 1942 and watch Satch pitch to power hitter Josh Gibson in the Negro League World Series. They soon learn that everything about Satch is fast-whether it's his talking, driving, or getaways. But...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
From Boulevard Park and Memorial Field to Security Service Field (formerly Sky Sox Stadium), Colorado Springs is a baseball town. Professional baseball arrived in 1901; the Brown Bombers, a semiprofessional black team, came in the 1940s; and the original Sky Sox won the Western League Championship in 1953, 1955, and 1958. Local players such as Ed Kent, Bill Everitt, Jim Landis, Sam Hairston, Connie Johnson, Vinny Castilla, and Todd Helton have made...
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