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1) Calico Joe
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In this novel, the careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it is what happens off the field that makes this story a classic.
2) The natural
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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
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1 DVD (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Nothing was going to stop Roy Hobbs from fulfilling his boyhood dream of baseball stardom. As a 14-year old he fashions a baseball bat from an oak tree. He soon impresses major league scouts with his ability. His talent also catches the eye of a sportswriter who eventually becomes instrumental in Hobbs' career. The appearance of a mysterious woman, however, shatters his dream. Years later Hobbs reappears as a rookie for the New York Knights and has...
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Baseball card adventures volume 5
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When Joe travels back in time to 1944, he meets the Milwaukee Chicks, one of the only all-female professional baseball teams in the history of the game.
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Boxcar children volume 122
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The Aldens help out at a minor league stadium and investigate when it appears someone in the ballpark is stealing the home team pitcher's signals and relaying them to the batters of the other team.
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When the Boston Red Sox won the World Series on October 27, 2004, they made history. Their stunning comeback against the New York Yankees and their four-game annihilation of the St. Louis Cardinals capped one of the most thrilling postseason runs ever. The World Series victory-Boston's first in 86 years-came less than three years after John Henry and Tom Werner bought the team from the Yawkey Trust and forever changed the way the Red Sox operated...
10) Dino-baseball
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Meat-eating dinosaurs face plant-eating dinosaurs in a baseball game.
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Paramount
Pub. Date
[2003], c1973
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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An unlikely friendship ignites between two baseball players. One is the team's ace pitcher and social charmer; the other is the catcher, a farm boy from Georgia who lacks sophistication. During their last season together, the two men grow in manhood and respect for themselves and each other.
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Michael Lewis's instant classic may be "the most influential book on sports ever written" (People), but "you need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of [Lewis's] thoughts about it" (Janet Maslin, New York Times).
One of GQ's 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century
Just before the 2002 season opens, the Oakland Athletics must
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Workman Publishing
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172 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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Meet unsung pioneers, like John "Bud" Fowler, William Edward White, and brothers Moses Fleetwood Walker and Weldy Walker, four African Americans who integrated white teams decades before Jackie Robinson. Discover unforgettable moments like the time a 17-year-old girl named Jackie Mitchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Marvel at records: did you know that Japanese superstar Sadaharu Oh has a whopping 113 more career homers than Hank Aaron? And...
15) Mighty Casey
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2009
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
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The Delmar Dogs baseball team is terrible, especially Casey Jenkins, but with a little bit of faith in themselves, they finally manage to win a game.
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Mudville Madness is for baseball fans who seek something beyond the standard boxscores--something new or rarely encountered. This book is a jaunt into the realm of the extraordinary and (at times) outright bizarre. The most uncommon events in three centuries of baseball history are recounted here in glorious detail, beginning with the game's earliest days when the rules were in their infancy, through the deadball years, right up to the 2013 season....
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Advance Praise for Did Babe Ruth Call His Shot?
"Aron has found the Rosetta stone to all of baseball's enduring mysteries, and he skips it along the pond with utter disregard for the ducks. His fortunate readers will have so much fun they may not even notice that they are becoming, page by page, real experts. Here is surefire water-cooler ammo."
--JOHN THORN, editor of Total Baseball
"Paul Aron puts a distant replay on the most famous controversies...
18) Chasing 3000
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Maya Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
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1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Two brothers, one of whom is afflicted with muscular dystrophy, make the drive from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh in hopes of witnessing Roberto Clemente getting his 3000th base hit.
20) I got it!
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Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm
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In this wordless picture book, a young outfielder imagines all the terrifying ways he might not catch the baseball, and one way that he can.
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