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Author
Series
Legends volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books, an Imprint of Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of America's pastime that discusses many of its most notable players, teams, rivalries, and moments, from Jackie Robinson's breaking of the color barrier to the home run race between Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rick Ankiel had the talent to be one of the best pitchers ever. Then, one day, he lost it.
The Phenomenon is the story of how St. Louis Cardinals prodigy Rick Ankiel lost his once-in-a-generation ability to pitch — not due to an injury or a bolt of lightning, but a mysterious anxiety condition widely known as "the Yips." It came without warning, in the middle of a playoff game, with millions of people watching. And it has never...
The Phenomenon is the story of how St. Louis Cardinals prodigy Rick Ankiel lost his once-in-a-generation ability to pitch — not due to an injury or a bolt of lightning, but a mysterious anxiety condition widely known as "the Yips." It came without warning, in the middle of a playoff game, with millions of people watching. And it has never...
Author
Publisher
W by Wattpad Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Sometimes you've got to leave your heart on the field. Gretchen Harper has always been practical. Dependable, solid, predictable. She's never taken risks, and she's especially never bought coffee for gorgeous professional athletes in airports. That is, until she meets her favorite baseball player on the worst day of his career. Being sent to the minor league is just the first of Joshua Malvern's many worries--he's got an injury that won't heal and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Liberty Street, an imprint of Time Inc. Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A look at the history of baseball shows the evolution of the sport from the sandlot to multi-million dollar stadiums, and examines such aspects of baseball as pitching, uniforms, gloves, umpires, and ballpark food.
Author
Series
Barefoot William volume 6
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When he strikes out with Stevie, a beautiful woman with a smart mouth, Richmond Rogues' left-fielder Joe "Zoo" Zooker goes to bat to win her over. But Stevie refuses to acknowledge her attraction to this notorious player who she knows will break her heart. But there's no denying the attraction between them, and as spring training heats up, lust suddenly begins to look a lot like love.
72) Mistletoe games
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Holiday games: For the high-achieving Elizabeth and her husband, baseball player Gavin Riley, failure is not an option. So when it comes to making a baby, they're not about to let any holiday distractions get in the way of their necessary pleasures...Holiday on ice: It's the season for giving and superstar hockey player Patrick "Trick" Niemeyer is ready to give dancer Stella Slovinski his heart wrapped up in bow. But he'll ave to melt the ice surrounding...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
Eclipsing the traditional sports memoir, House of Nails, by former world champion, multimillionaire entrepreneur, and imprisoned felon Lenny Dykstra, spins a tragicomic tale of Shakespearean proportions -- a relentlessly entertaining American epic that careens between the heights and the abyss.
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Presents autobiographical accounts of the early days of baseball from the first half of the twentieth century, narrated by some of its most accomplished players, including such athletes as Harry Hooper, Al Bridewell, Babe Ruth, and Goose Goslin.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An audacious wonder of a novel about baseball and a future America, from the always inventive and exciting author of The Love Wife and Who's Irish. The time: Some thirty-five years hence. The place: AutoAmerica--governed by "Aunt Nettie," an iBurrito of AI algorithms and the internet, in a land half under water. The people: Divided into the angelfair "Netted," whose fate it is to have jobs and live on high ground, and the mostly coppertoned "Surplus,"...
79) Blockade Billy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Retired third-base coach George 'Granny' Grantham chronicles the story of Billy Blakely, a catcher called up from Iowa to play for the New Jersey Titans in the spring of 1957. A powerful hitter and passionate catcher, Blockade Billy becomes notorious for drawing blood out of runners who collide with him at home plate. However, Billy holds a sinister secret, one that causes baseball officials to remove his name from the record books.
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