The fate of a small California town rests on the outcome of one baseball game, and Tom Gallagher hopes to lead his team to victory with the secrets of the now disgraced player, Dante Del Gato.
Capital Catch (Ballpark Mysteries, #13) (Stepping Stone Book(tm))
by David A. Kelly
Batter up! Baseball action and exciting whodunits star in this series! Next up is Washington D.C. and the Nationals team! Mike and Kate are about to face their biggest, most important mystery yet! Why? It involves the president of the United States! The president’s brother is a catcher on the Nationals baseball team, and someone is stealing his equipment! Can these super-sleuths help the commander in chief catch a criminal? Ballpark Mysteries are the all-star matchup of fun sleuthing and...
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.
When Hawk’s baseball coach tells him how Babe Ruth hit his first professional home run nearby, the question arises: what happened to the baseball? Bullies, baseball, and kids who defy the odds. Hawk, a poor, half-Native boy who lives on the street, is eager to go back to school, to play baseball, and to please both his divorced parents. When Mr. Rizzuto, his baseball coach, tells him how the great Babe Ruth, playing on nearby Toronto Island in 1914, hit his first professional home run, the que...
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.