Author : Matt Christopher
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 2009-12-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0316095435
Voted captain of his baseball team, Jimmie declares himself pitcher even though Paul is a better pitcher. Paul leaves for another team, and Jimmie's team starts losing. Can Jimmie regain the confidence of his friends?
Author : Tom Dunkel
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 21,28 MB
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0802121373
Taking readers back in time to 1947, an award-winning journalist chronicles an integrated baseball team in Bismarck, North Dakota that rose above a segregated society to become champions, delving into the history of the players, the town and baseball itself.
Author : Matt Christopher
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 2009-12-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0316096016
Over one million copies sold! A baseball fan learns the true meaning of success in this beloved classic that will capture the imaginations of a new generation of young readers. Sylvester loves baseball, but he isn't exactly what you'd call a good hitter. Even though he wants nothing more than to join his neighborhood team, the Hooper Redbirds, he's sure he'll never do anything more than warm the bench. But then he meets the mysterious Mr. Baruth who promises to make Sylvester one of the best players ever. Suddenly, Sylvester goes from the worst player on the team to the kid who can only hit homers. With his overnight success, however, come tough questions. Will Sylvester ever learn the true meaning of teamwork? And what will happen when he has to learn to stand on his own? This beloved story about baseball, confidence, perseverance, and being a good teammate is a modern classic and sure to win over a new generation of young sports fans.
Author : Matt Christopher
Publisher : Norwood House Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 24,92 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1599533545
Chico, a native of Puerto Rico and an excellent swimmer, joins the Royals baseball team but has trouble making friends with String, the most popular member of the team.
Author : John Ritter
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 2005-03-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780142402863
Tom Gallagher is in a tight spot. The fate of the Dillontown team rests on the outcome of one baseball game, winner take all. If Tom's team loses, they lose their field too. But how can they possibly win? Just when everything seems hopeless, a mysterious boy named Cruz de la Cruz rides into town and claims to know the secret of hitting. Not to mention the secrets of Dante Del Gato, Dillontown's greatest hitter ever. Since he walked away from the game years ago, Del Gato hasn't spoken a word to anyone. But now he might be Tom's only hope for saving his hometown. From the award-winning author of Over the Wall and Choosing Up Sides comes this imaginative tale of one boy's struggle to preserve the spirit of the game he loves.
Author : Josh Hamilton
Publisher : FaithWords
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 30,67 MB
Release : 2008-10-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0446550728
Josh Hamilton was the first player chosen in the first round of the 1999 baseball draft. He was destined to be one of those rare "high-character " superstars. But in 2001, working his way from the minors to the majors, all of the plans for Josh went off the rails in a moment of weakness. What followed was a 4-year nightmare of drugs and alcohol, estrangement from friends and family, and his eventual suspension from baseball. BEYOND BELIEF details the events that led up to the derailment. Josh explains how a young man destined for fame and wealth could allow his life to be taken over by drugs and alcohol. But it is also the memoir of a spiritual journey that breaks through pain and heartbreak and leads to the rebirth of his major-league career. Josh Hamilton makes no excuses and places no blame on anyone other than himself. He takes responsibility for his poor decisions and believes his story can help millions who battle the same demons. "I have been given a platform to tell my story" he says. "I pray every night I am a good messenger."
Author : Dean Hughes
Publisher : Atheneum Books
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 37,93 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780689819247
Having failed to get their applications in for the middle school summer baseball league, Robbie and Trent scramble to find a sponsor, a coach, and enough players to form their own team.
Author : Audrey Vernick
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 43,55 MB
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0547822855
The Acerra family had sixteen children, including twelve ball-playing boys. It was the 1930s, and many families had lots of kids. But only one had enough to field a baseball team . . . with three on the bench! The Acerras were the longest-playing all-brother team in baseball history. They loved the game, but more important, they cared for and supported each other and stayed together as a team. Nothing life threw their way could stop them. Full of action, drama, and excitement, this never-before-told true story is vividly brought to life by Audrey Vernick’s expert storytelling and Steven Salerno’s stunning vintage-style art.
Author : Eric Stone
Publisher : Lyons Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,13 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Baseball players
ISBN : 9781592284399
Set against the grime-and-glitter backdrop of mid-20th century Los Angeles, this is the true story of a talented young athlete in the days before special ability in sports was a ticket to riches. Faced with a choice of sure success in the revered but grueling world of major league baseball or the easy money, fast times, and glamour of organized crime, Ralph "Blackie" Schwamb tried to have it all. But the pull of the underworld was inevitably too strong, and Blackie, a rising star pitcher for the St. Louis Browns at 22, was behind bars for a brutal murder at 23. Like a fast-paced novel, this book races breathlessly through Depression-era and World War II L.A. and into the postwar economic boom, plunging into a world of gangsters, nightclubs, girls, guns, gambling, and booze, from Mexico to Canada--and baseball, mostly behind prison walls.--From publisher description.
Author : Matt Christopher
Publisher : Norwood House Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 42,3 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1599533561
Jimmie makes his teammates mad when he becomes captain and selects himself as pitcher of his baseball team and he does not perform well during games.
