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"When Marvin moves to a new neighborhood, he wants nothing more than to join the local baseball team. After all, he loves playing baseball more than anything, and with his lucky baseball bat in hand, what could go wrong? But when that same lucky bat goes missing, Marvin completely loses his ability to play ball. Without it, he can't see how he'll ever live up to his baseball heroes. But even though he's lost his talent, Marvin might just find something...

When cousins Mike and Kate go to Kansas City for the All-Star game, they meet the son of the American League starting catcher who stands falsely accused of playing practical jokes on his All-Star teammates.

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.

Howie Traveler finally gets a shot at baseball stardom when he is offered a job as manager of the Cleveland Indians, but soon learns his lofty dreams of mastering America's favorite pastime are unrealistic as he deals with his superstar outfielder.

Draws from newspaper accounts, research, and player interviews to tell the story of the rise and fall of the Indianapolis ABCs, the longest-lived team in the Negro National League, and includes team rosters, player statistics, and biographies.

"Longer than Moby-Dick and nearly as ambitious,​The Baseball 100 is a one-of-a-kind work by award-winning sportswriter and lifelong student of the game Joe Posnanski that tells the story of the sport through the remarkable lives of its 100 greatest players. In the book's introduction, Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator George F. Will marvels, "Posnanski must already have lived more than 200 years. How else could he have acquired such a stock...

For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be cancelled due to their county's anniversary pageant, but after the death of the old man to whom twelve-year-old star pitcher House Jackson has been secretly reading for a year, House uncovers secrets about the man and the history of baseball in Aurora County that could fix everything.

Focuses on the proper execution of key fundamentals in baseball, presented in a way that will keep the interest of the players whether they are six or sixteen.

The Berenstain Bears attend a baseball game where they cheer on their favorite team, enjoy the seventh-inning stretch, and chase fly balls.

"Eleven-year-old cousins who are closer than most brothers, catcher Liam McGrath 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...