Author : Dan Gutman
Publisher : Scholastic Paperbacks
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780590479752
A team of youngsters takes on a crew of extraterrestrials determined to learn the game of baseball. Original.
Author : Dan Gutman
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 18,30 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780606082815
A team of youngsters takes on a crew of extraterrestrials determined to learn the game of baseball.
Author : Robert Lipsyte
Publisher : HarperTeen
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 13,30 MB
Release : 2010-03-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780060557041
Mike has his junior year well under control. He's got a solid group of friends. He's dating Lori, one of the hottest girls in school. And Coach Cody has all but given him the starting spot as the Ridgedale Rangers' varsity center fielder. And then Oscar Ramirez shows up. Oscar is an amazing ballplayer, as talented at the plate as he is in center field, and it's not long before Mike loses control. He's on the bench, he's getting into fights, and he finds himself in weekend detention with Katherine Herold, the most mysterious, abrasive, alluring girl in school. Mike is lost, confused, and looking to Coach Cody to help him get back on track. But the coach has his own set of rules for Mike to play by, and the decisions Mike makes are going to impact more than just the starting lineup. Robert Lipsyte, one of the most celebrated writers in young adult literature, has crafted a subtly intense tale of adolescent struggle, a sports story about much more than sports—one that shows us how the moves one makes off the field matter even more than the moves one has on it.
Author : James R. Walker
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0803248253
This work explores how the new medium of television changed America's pastime and traces the sometimes contentious but mutually beneficial relationship between baseball and television, from the first televised game in 1939 to the modern-day world of Internet broadcasts, satellite radio, and high-definition television. Original.
Author : W. P. Kinsella
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 26,79 MB
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0795311710
The novel that inspired Field of Dreams: “A lyrical, seductive, and altogether winning concoction.” —The New York Times Book Review One of Sports Illustrated’s 100 Greatest Sports Books “If you build it, he will come.” When Ray Kinsella hears these mysterious words spoken in the voice of an Iowa baseball announcer, he is inspired to carve a baseball diamond in his cornfield. It is a tribute to his hero, the legendary Shoeless Joe Jackson, whose reputation was forever tarnished by the scandalous 1919 World Series. What follows is a timeless story that is “not so much about baseball as it is about dreams, magic, life, and what is quintessentially American” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). “A triumph of hope.” —The Boston Globe “A moonlit novel about baseball, dreams, family, the land, and literature.” —Sports Illustrated
Author : Allen Barra
Publisher : Crown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 42,54 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 030771649X
Acclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field. Culturally, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were light-years apart. Yet they were nearly the same age and almost the same size, and they came to New York at the same time. They possessed virtually the same talents and played the same position. They were both products of generations of baseball-playing families, for whom the game was the only escape from a lifetime of brutal manual labor. Both were nearly crushed by the weight of the outsized expectations placed on them, first by their families and later by America. Both lived secret lives far different from those their fans knew. What their fans also didn't know was that the two men shared a close personal friendship--and that each was the only man who could truly understand the other's experience.
Author : Mike Lupica
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101200758
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Heat, Travel Team and Million-Dollar Throw. Playing shortstop is a way of life for Hutch—not only is his hero, Derek Jeter, a shortstop, but so was his father, a former local legend turned pro. Which is why having to play second base feels like demotion to second team. Yet that's where Hutch ends up after Darryl "D-Will" Williams, the best shortstop prospect since A-Rod, joins the team. But Hutch is nothing if not a team player, and he's cool with playing in D-Will's shadow—until, that is, the two shortstops in Hutch's life betray him in a way he never could have imagined. With the league championship on the line, just how far is Hutch willing to bend to be a good teammate?
Author : Hal Higdon
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 20,79 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Baseball
ISBN : 9780590620116
After Oscar the horse began playing center field, the New York Goats, worst team in the major leagues, seemed certain to win the World Series, and then--Oscar was horse-naped.
Author : Lynn Curlee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 22,31 MB
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1416953604
The author provides a tour through baseball history with this tribute to America's favorite ballparks.
Author : Larry King
Publisher : Phoenix Audio
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 2006-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781597775281
King is a true-blue baseball fanatic. Every reason to love baseball is laid out in this nostalgic book, as King gives an inside view to the trading cards, the scuffles, the most classic plays, the labor disputes, and the personalities that pervade the sport.
