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1) 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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Part historical fiction, part memoir, this novel takes place over a 10-week period in the summer of 1956 in a small town in the mid-west. It is based on a true story of the social and athletic achievements of an eleven-man mixed-race baseball team, seven African-American, three Hispanics, and one Caucasian. Under the leadership of an aging charismatic African-American manager, the Brown Bombers tolerate the nearness of racism as part of the price...
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Series
Game changers volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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Ben and his friends, the Core Four Plus One, are so excited to play in their town's All-Star Baseball league. But in the first game of the season Ben gets hit by a pitch. It's never happened to him before and it shakes him up. Another player on Ben's team, Justin, is acting really weirdly. Ben has known Justin for a while and they're friendly but he's not one of Ben's closest "boys." Justin is the team's best hitter but his behavior on and off the...
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"'Out of the Blue' takes fans through the Royals' amazing journey, from Raul Ibanez's stirring speech that sparked the team, to Lorenzo Cain's run-saving defensive plays, to their extra-inning postseason magic. This commemorative edition also includes in-depth profiles of outfielder Alex Gordon, third baseman Mike Moustakas, the trio of flamethrowing relievers, and other fan favorites."
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First published in 1963, Eliot Asinof's Eight Men Out has become a timeless classic of a scandalous world series.
The headlines proclaimed the 1919 fix of the World Series and attempted cover-up as "the most gigantic sporting swindle in the history of America!" Eliot Asinof has reconstructed the entire scene-by-scene story of the fantastic scandal in which eight Chicago White Sox players arranged with the nation's leading gamblers to throw the...
9) Baseball
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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Step up to the plate and learn all about America's favorite sport. From the different positions, equipment, rules, and regulations.
10) October 1964
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The bestselling follow-up to the classic The Summer of '49, illuminating the heart-pounding 1964 World Series between the Yankees and Cardinals David Halberstam, an avid sports writer with an investigative reporter's tenacity, superbly details the end of the fifteen-year reign of the New York Yankees in October 1964. That October found the Yankees going head-to-head with the St. Louis Cardinals for the World Series pennant. Expertly weaving the narrative...
13) Shoeless Joe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
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Ray Kinsella's fanatic love of baseball drives him to build a baseball stadium in his corn field and kidnap the author, J.D. Salinger, and bring him to a baseball game.
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Chronicles the life of baseball player Derek Jeter, discussing his childhood, struggles in the minor leagues, early days with the Yankees, rivalry with his former best friend A-Rod, rise to the top of the major league, personal relationships, career accomplishments, and other related topics.
15) Honus and me
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Series
Baseball card adventures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Joey, who loves baseball but is not very good at it, finds a valuable 1909 Honus Wagner card and travels back in time to meet Honus.
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Baseball great novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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Determined to play in the Little League World Series, twelve-year-old Josh struggles to concentrate on his game and be the team's leader while also trying to cope with his parents' impending divorce.
17) Dino-baseball
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Meat-eating dinosaurs face plant-eating dinosaurs in a baseball game.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
720L
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Oscar Indigo has never been good at baseball, so naturally he's nervous when he has to fill in for his team's injured All-Star, Lourdes. Luckily, Oscar has a mysterious gold watch that can stop time, which he uses to fake a game-winning home run. Now Oscar's the underdog hero of his town and even Lourdes wants to be his friend. But the universe is a precarious place, and you can't just steal time without any consequences. If Oscar doesn't find a way...
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HarperCollins Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
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Eleven-year-old Jason, believing the school custodian Mack Henry to be Buck McHenry, a famous pitcher from the old Negro League, tries to enlist him as a coach for his Little League team by revealing his identity to the world.
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This book explains how Billy Beene, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, is using a new kind of thinking to build a successful and winning baseball team without spending enormous sums of money. The author examines the fallacy behind the major league baseball refrain that the team with the biggest wallet is supposed to win. Over the past four years the Oakland Athletics, a major league team with a minor league payroll, have had one of the...
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