Twelve-year-old Peter Lee and his family are baseball lovers, who bond over back lot games and talk of the Pittsburgh Pirates. But when tragedy strikes, the family flies apart and baseball no longer seems to matter. Is that true? Peter wonders if just maybe the game they love can pull them together and bring them back, safe at home. Peter hopes that if he joins a Little League team in Pittsburgh, he can reawaken the passion for baseball that all the members of his family used to share before hi...
ShaTayshia's Auntie knows the lost story of the Dolly Vardens, the first African-American Women's baseball team and a secret that will change ShaTayshia's baseball dreams forever.
Named after the greatest baseball player of all time, eleven-year-old Ruth dreams of becoming a major league baseball player until she overhears her father lamenting the fact that she is a girl
Keystone Kids (Baseball Diamonds (Paperback), #3) (Brooklyn Dodgers, #2)
by John R Tunis
When two young brothers join the Brooklyn Dodgers, one becomes team manager and is faced with the task of uniting a team rife with dissension and prejudice against the new Jewish rookie catcher.
As Slugger Sal slips deeper into a slump, he wonders if he is washed up as a baseball player.