Caleb has always batted with the same wood bat until the other team accuses Caleb of cheating by tampering with the bat! Now Caleb is forced to use the aluminum bat. How is he supposed to help his team win when he keeps striking out?

Collects popular short stories about baseball from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and includes works by Zane Grey, James Thurber, Robert Penn Warren, and Michael Chabon.

Thirteen-year-old Alex Weakerman gets more than he bargains for when his grandfather passes away and names Alex the new manager of his hometown's scrappy independent-league baseball team.

"Mo Jackson is excited for his baseball game, but Coach Marie tells him he is batting last and playing right field, again. Will Mo ever get a hit?"--

Curious George and the man in the yellow hat attend a baseball game to cheer on the Mudville Miners.

Brother and Sister Bear are such good baseball players that Papa Bear decides they should try out for the Bear Country Cub League.

Team manager Charlie Brown, is so desperate to win a baseball game, that he tries to trade Lucy, his worst player, but ends up trading Snoopy, his best player.

When sports agent Liz Darnell realizes she risks losing her number one client, she offers herself as part of the bargain.

"Eleven-year-old cousins who are closer than most brothers, catcher Liam McCarthy and pitcher Carter Jones grew up playing baseball together. Now, their team is on the verge of winning the greatest championship of all: the Little League Baseball World Series. To reach the title match, however, they must first beat their number one rivals from Southern California. Little do they know that the game will prove to be just the first challenge they'll face...

When Little Rhino goes down with an injury that forces him to sit out of games, he discovers he can still be a good teammate by helping his friends away from the action.