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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
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An adaptation for children of the tale of a girl's experiences while lost on the Appalachian Trail, certain she is being followed by some beastly thing, but comforted by imaginary conversations with her favorite baseball player.
5) Double play
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From the author of Slow Heat, The Trouble with Paradise, and the Lucky Harbor novels...
Pace Martin is the ace pitcher for the Pacific Heat. He's got the arm, the experience and the wins. He's also got the pain, the pressure, and the possible end of his career looming over him. The last thing he needs now is a distraction, even if it comes in the form of a tough, beautiful, tell-it-like-it-is writer who sees past his defenses.
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Pace Martin is the ace pitcher for the Pacific Heat. He's got the arm, the experience and the wins. He's also got the pain, the pressure, and the possible end of his career looming over him. The last thing he needs now is a distraction, even if it comes in the form of a tough, beautiful, tell-it-like-it-is writer who sees past his defenses.
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Ralph Branca is best known for throwing the pitch that resulted in Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard 'Round the World, the historic homerun that capped an incredible comeback and won the pennant for the Giants in 1951. And so Branca was on the losing end of what many consider to be baseball's most thrilling moment, but that notoriety belies a profoundly successful life and career. A Moment in Time is the remarkable story of a man who could have been destroyed...
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Boxcar children volume 122
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
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The Aldens help out at a minor league stadium and investigate when it appears someone in the ballpark is stealing the home team pitcher's signals and relaying them to the batters of the other team.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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Eighth-grader Molly's ability to throw a knuckleball earns her a spot on the baseball team, which not only helps her feel connected to her recently deceased father, who loved baseball, it helps in other aspects of her life, as well.
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For the first time, Dalko: The Untold Story of Baseball's Fastest Pitcher unites all of the eyewitness accounts from the coaches, analysts, teammates, and professionals who witnessed the game's fastest pitcher in action. In doing so, it puts readers on the fields and at the plate to hear the buzzing fastball of a pitcher fighting to achieve his major league ambitions.
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HarperCollins
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2011
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"Baseball is also the only American sport where the defense has the ball. So begins an inside look at baseball's most scrutinized group of players - relief pitchers -- and life in the most intriguing bullpen of all, that of the New York Yankees"--
12) All of me
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Love between the bases novels volume 1
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After a meltdown during a major league game, pitcher Caleb Hart is sent back home, and, with the help of the beautiful mayor's assistant, must improve his town's team's image while trying to keep his family together and his ex-con father out of trouble.
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The first biography of the eccentric pitcher, rookie All-Star starter, 70s pop icon, and first athlete on the cover of Rolling Stone.
For those who remember him, Mark Fidrych is still that player who brings a smile to your face, the irresistibly likable pitcher whose sudden rise brightened the star-spangled season of 1976 and reminded us of the pure joy of the game.
Lanky, mop-topped, and nicknamed for his resemblance to Big Bird on Sesame Street,...
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"A TRUE STORY OF FINDING THE AMERICAN DREAM. ABROAD India is a country with more than one billion people, a fanatical national cricket obsession, and exactly zero talent scouts. There, superstar sports agent J. B. Bernstein knew that he could find the Yao Ming of baseball-- someone with a strong arm and enough raw talent to pitch in the major leagues. Almost no one in India is familiar with the game, but Bernstein had heard enough coaches swear that...
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"Yahoo's lead baseball columnist offers an in-depth look at the most valuable commodity in sports--the pitching arm--and how its vulnerability to injury is hurting players and the game, from Little League to the majors. Every year, Major League Baseball spends more than $1.5 billion on pitchers--five times more than the salary of every NFL quarterback combined. Pitchers are the games' lifeblood. Their import is exceeded only by their fragility. One...
19) The closer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Mariano Rivera tells his story for the first time: the championships, the bosses (including the Boss), the rivalries, the struggles of being a Latino baseball player in the United States, and of maintaining Christian values in professional athletics. The twelve-time All-Star will discuss what it's like to run up to that mound with the game, or the season squarely on his shoulders.
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Baseball's No-Hit Wonders honors such legendary pitchers as Cy Young, Bob Feller, Nolan Ryan and Sandy Koufax, while introducing readers to other eccentrics and one-shot wonders who have thrown no-hitters. The book, the first of its kind in more than fifteen years, fleshes out the colorful characters, compelling narratives and statistical oddities from baseball's 289 no-hit efforts as well as the many near misses that are also part of the national...