Presents a story of right-handed Jorge Posada being coached by his father to bat left-handed, and how it leads right to the major leagues.
Mice at Bat (I Can Read Book) (I Can Read Book S.)
by Kelly Oechsli
When the human baseball game is over, two teams of mice take over the ballpark to play their own championship ball game.
When baseball equipment starts disappearing from B.J.'s Little League team, he and his friends form the Sluggers Club to investigate the crime.
Thirteen-year-old Tyler, who has trouble controlling his anger, spends an important summer with his cousins in New York City, playing baseball and sorting out how he feels about violence, war, and in particular the Vietnamese conflict that took his grandfather's life.
Mickey Baker and his teamates are having a great year, they've already won league titles in basketball and football, and their hopes and expectations for another championship title are high at the start of the baseball season. When a conflict between their coach and one of the team parents threatens the very fiber of the team, they must work together to find a way to win.
As the freshman baseball team at State University tries to live up to its nickname, "Fence Busters," Chip must endure an injury and friction with a jealous teammate.
In 1881, the scrappy, rough-and-tumble baseball team in a California mining town enlists the help of a quick-witted twelve-year-old orphan and the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid to win a big game against the National League Champion Chicago White Stockings. Prequel to: The boy who saved baseball.
When Eiji is told that he is named after one of the greatest Japanese baseball players that ever lived, he feels inspired and ready to play! Readers will love the inspirational language and detailed illustrations in this charming book.
With the game on the line on opening day, nervous rookie Thumby Duckling steps up to the plate.
Nine-year-old Sam decides to teach his new puppy to behave, but not before Dodger has scared his sister, pulled down some curtains, and stopped a baseball game.