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1) Shoeless Joe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
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A dreamer builds a baseball diamond amid the Iowa cornfields and waits for the outstanding, but dead, baseball players of the past to show up for a very special game.
2) Calico Joe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
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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.
3) Sizzling
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A former professional baseball pitcher and owner of the family sports bar, Reid Buchanan attracts all the women around him, except for his grandmother's nurse, Lori Johnston, a woman determined to remain professional at all costs.
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"When pro baseball player Chase Walker first meets Amanda at her restaurant, it's love at first sight. While Amanda can't help noticing the superstar with the Greek-god-build, he doesn't have a chance of getting to first--or any other--base with her. A successful entrepreneur who's built her business from scratch, Amanda doesn't need a Prince Charming to sweep her off her feet. And a curvy girl who likes to cook and eat isn't interested in being around...
5) Double play
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In 1947, as Jackie Robinson breaks the major league baseball color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Joseph Burke, a World War II veteran and survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to be Robinson's bodyguard.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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"Frank Ryder is unstoppable on the baseball field―his pitches arrive faster than a batter can swing, giving his opponents no chance. He’s being heralded as a game-changing pitcher. But within the maelstrom of press, adulation, and wild speculation, Frank is a man alone. Haunted by a tragic incident from years past, he yearns to be the best but cannot reconcile the guilt he carries with the man everyone believes him to be. Frank’s path to redemption...
11) Jackie Robinson
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Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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A biography of the first African American to break the color barrier in major league baseball.
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"Police Chief Jesse Stone is back in the remarkable new installment of the New York Times-bestselling series. It's been a long time since Jesse Stone left L.A., and longer still since the tragic injury that ruined his chances for a professional baseball career. When Jesse is invited to a reunion of his old Triple-A team, he is forced to grapple with his memories and his regrets over what might have been. But his time at the reunion is cut short...
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Babe Ruth was more than baseball's original superstar. For 85 years, he has remained the sport's reigning titan. He has been named Athlete of the Century more than once. But who was this large, loud, enigmatic man? Why is so little known about his childhood, his private life, and his inner thoughts? Based on newly discovered documents and interviews--including pages from Ruth's personal scrapbooks--this book traces Ruth's life from his bleak childhood...
15) Slow Moe
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
An akward teenage boy's dream comes true when he finds a mysterious pair of glasses that turns him into the greatest baseball player his town has ever seen. He quickly learns that winning doesn't mean anything if you can't be proud of how you play the game.
16) Blockade Billy
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"Even the most die-hard baseball fans don't know the true story of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first--and only--player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game's history. Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Throughout the history of the United States' national pastime, great players have thrilled fans with home run blasts, dazzling pitching performances, and skillful defensive work in the field. This title explores achievements of baseball's greats from over 100 years of Major League competition through exciting stories, engaging photographs, informative sidebars, a glossary, and an index.
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Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 4
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Many of the baseball greats overcame huge challenges to be sports heroeshere are five inspiring stories of men who did just that. Baseball is considered Americas pastime, but not all players grew up living the American dream. Babe Ruth, Jim Peirsall, Torii Hunter, Ron LeFlore, and Joe Torre sure didnt. Poverty, abuse, and addiction are a few of the issues they had to deal with as kids, but they turned their lives around to play the game they loved....
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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A lavishly illustrated edition of the famous poem, which was first published in 1888. This edition presents it as if found in a vintage scrapbook, complete with fictional news clippings and advertisements about baseball's early days.