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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...
7) Swing
Author
Publisher
Blink
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"When America is not so beautiful, or right, or just, it can be hard to know what to do. Best friends Walt and Noah decide to use their voices to grow more good in the world, but first they've got to find cool. Walt is convinced junior year is their year, and he has a plan to help them woo the girls of their dreams and become amazing athletes. Never mind that he and Noah failed to make the high school baseball team yet again, and Noah's love interest...
8) Camp Average
Author
Series
Camp Average volume 1
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Camp Average is a middle-grade novel that tells the story of a group of 11-year-old boys sharing Cabin 10 at a six-week summer sports camp for boys. The actual name of the place is Camp Avalon, but the kids call it Camp Average, because they never win at any sport. And that's the way they like it. But this summer, Winston, the new camp director doesn't like losing, and he's not about to start! Led by the main protagonist, Mack, and his best friend...
Author
Series
Scream team volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"All Karl wants to do is make the Junior Club Werewolves team. But when tryouts turn into a monster letdown, Karl decides to bark up a different tree!"--Back cover.
10) Baseball jokes
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED KIDS presents an all-star collection of BASEBALL jokes, riddles, and memes! With laugh-out-loud homeruns like "What has 18 legs and catches flies? A baseball team!" these colorful, illustrated joke books will have BASEBALL fans rolling in the stadium aisles.
11) I got it!
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Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Midsummer's mayhem volume 2
Publisher
Yellow Jacket
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Loosely based on Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing," twelve-year-olds Trish and Ben should be automatic friends because they both play baseball on a Little League team in Comity, Massachusetts, and they both love solving math puzzles, but obstacles stand in their way.
14) Double play
Author
Series
Baseball genius volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When New York Yankee James "JY" Yager tries to show that he can still hit in the majors without the help of twelve-year-old Jalen's baseball genius, Jalen focuses on his own baseball career as he tries to carve out a spot with the Rockton Rockets.
16) Play ball!
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Martha's an expert at playing catch, but her friend Truman is not; can a dog teach a human new tricks?
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Oscar Indigo has never been good at baseball, so naturally he's nervous when he has to fill in for his team's injured All-Star, Lourdes. Luckily, Oscar has a mysterious gold watch that can stop time, which he uses to fake a game-winning home run. Now Oscar's the underdog hero of his town and even Lourdes wants to be his friend. But the universe is a precarious place, and you can't just steal time without any consequences. If Oscar doesn't find a way...
Author
Series
Lloyd Keaton mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Blaze Stender, a retired pitching superstar, asks his old friend Lloyd Keaton to write his biography, hoping that the book will help ensure his election to baseball's Hall of Fame. When Stender goes missing following a boating accident, Keaton discovers that the facts of his old friend's life are at odds with his popular image, and that Stender was keeping some dark secrets, including blackmail payments that could be related to a mysterious death....
Author
Series
Zach and Zoe mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When they go on a field trip to a pop-up museum sponsored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame, eight-year-old twins Zach and Zoe discover an empty display case and with the help of their friends, they figure out what happened.
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