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"In a small town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her house. Everyone in town, including her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and she doesn't correct them. In New York, Dean Tenney, former major-league pitcher and Andy's childhood friend, is struggling with a case of the "yips": he can't throw straight anymore, and he can't figure out why. An invitation from Andy to stay in Maine for a few months...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
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From New York Times bestselling author Stephen King comes the haunting story of Blockade Billy , the greatest Major League baseball player to be erased from the game. 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...
3) Calico Joe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
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In this novel, the careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it is what happens off the field that makes this story a classic.
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"Georgette Castle's family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven't taken her seriously since. Frankly, she's over it. Georgie loves planning children's birthday parties and making people laugh, just not at her own expense. She's determined to fix herself up into a Woman of the World... whatever that means. Phase one: new framework for her business (a website from this decade, perhaps?)...
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
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What's a 16-year-old boy to do when he learns that his stepmother and a local judge have murdered his father and now plan to kill him, too? Well, when it's 1906, and you can play pretty good second base, you join a barn-storming baseball team making its way across Kansas. It also helps that the team is the Kansas City National Bloomer Girls. After all, who'd look for a runaway boy disguised as a girl on a women's team that competes against town teams...
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c1999
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Michael Schell is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina and Director of the Biostatistics Core Facility at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is the author of Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers: Adjusted Batting Performance from Strikeouts to Home Runs (Princeton) and has published more than 100 research articles on statistics and cancer.
Tony Gwynn is the greatest hitter in the history of baseball. That's the...
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Publisher
Sports Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
""Big-league baseball is subtle; cloaked in summer languor, moving with the slow, supple grace of a ballerina practicing backstage, yet taut and technical in its skills. To view a baseball game and appreciate it takes concentration." So begins Baseball's Best Ever. Encompassing a selection of some one hundred columns and featured stories written over 50-plus years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist share stories on some of the greatest baseball players...
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Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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"A picture book biography highlighting a pivotal event in the childhood of African American baseball player Marcenia "Toni Stone" Lyle Alberga, the woman who broke baseball's gender barrier by becoming the first female roster member of a professional Negro League team"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"A picture book biography about Lizzie Murphy, the first woman to play in a major league exhibition game and the first person to play on both the New England and American leagues' all-star teams"--
12) The rookies
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Series
Publisher
Rourke Corp
Pub. Date
c1991
Description
Looks at the achievements in the field and at the plate of the game's outstanding first-year players, including Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays, Carlton Fisk, and many others.
13) MVPs
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Corporation
Pub. Date
c1991
Description
Traces the origin of the Most Valuable Player award in professional baseball, describes how the players are selected, and highlights the achievements of some of the winners.
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Series
Bromance book club volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott's marriage is in major league trouble. He's recently discovered a humiliating secret: his wife Thea has always faked the Big O. When he loses his cool at the revelation, it's the final straw on their already strained relationship. Thea asks for a divorce, and Gavin realizes he's let his pride and fear get the better of him. Distraught and desperate, Gavin finds help from an unlikely source: a secret romance...
15) Jackie Robinson
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World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"When Ernie Banks died in 2015, he was regarded as one of the most beloved men in baseball history. Making his start as a shortstop with the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro Leagues as a teenager, Banks went on to become the first African American to play for the Chicago Cubs. Known affectionately as "Mr. Cub," he brought exceptional talent and boundless optimism to the game of baseball, earning him a Presidential Medal of Freedom and a place in...
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Publisher
Blue River Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
""What hit meant the most to you and why?" The simple question led award-winning sportswriter Mark Newman on an eight-year journey that would bring about surprising stories and empowering life lessons from the minds of the most fabled Major League hitters in our time." -- Back cover.
19) Hank Aaron
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Born in 1934, Hank Aaron faced many roadblocks because of his race. In fact, his school did not even have a baseball team. When Jackie Robinson broke the race barrier and entered the major leagues, Aaron was given hope that his dream of playing professional baseball could someday come true. Aaron became one of baseball's best players-winning the World Championship, breaking Babe Ruth's home run record, and being inducted into the Baseball Hall of...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Bestselling author Peter Golenbock brings to life baseball greats from the 1940s, '50s, and '60s with Whispers of the Gods. Like the enduring classic The Glory of Their Times, this book is based on hundreds of hours of taped interviews featuring the likes of Roy Campanella, Ted Williams, Phil Rizzuto, Jim Bouton, Stan Musial, and more"-- Provided by publisher.
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