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In Brooklyn in the late 1940s, adolescent Michael Devlin is a dutiful son to his widowed mother and a conscientious altar boy at the parish church. One day, he meets Rabbi Judah Hirsch, a chance encounter that inaugurates a friendship with vast consequences, good and bad, for both of them. Michael lost his father in the war, and the rabbi, a recent immigrant to this country, lost his wife. The threads of their connection widen and strengthen as the...
7) Shoeless Joe
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English
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A dreamer builds a baseball diamond amid the Iowa cornfields and waits for the outstanding, but dead, baseball players of the past to show up for a very special game.
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Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
©1992
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
111 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
When Stan is tempted to quit baseball after a few setbacks, he receives a mysterious note telling him to stick it out, and soon finds himself face-to-face with the challenge at second base.
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English
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Billy Chapel is a pitcher who has given his life to the game he loves so well; a man who has retained the endearing qualities of youth; the last of the greatcompetitors in his ranks. Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Shaara calls upon his intimate knowledge of baseball to create this exciting novel about pride, the fear of aging, and the time when a man's character is defined by the choices he makes.
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English
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Cam uses her photographic memory to identify the person who stole a valuable autographed baseball. The Cam Jansen books are perfect for young readers who are making the transition to chapter books, and Cam is a spunky young heroine whom readers have loved for over two decades. Now the first ten books in the series have updated covers that bring new life to these perennial best-sellers. Old fans and new readers will love Cam's cool, modern look!
12) Ballpark
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
©1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the activities that go on in all areas of a baseball stadium both before and during a game.
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Series
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English
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Joe Stoshack is beginning to think life can't get much worse. The thing he likes best in the whole world is baseball. He knows everything there is to know about the game ... except how to hit home runs. His specialty seems to be striking out. But Joe's life is about to change in the most amazing way. . . When Joe gets a job cleaning old Miss Young's attic he's not too happy about it. The place is filled with tons of worthless trash, and he's only...
15) The big field
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English
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When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too.
17) Blockade Billy
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English
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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...
20) Max
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Series
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
©1976
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Max finds a new way to warm up for his Saturday baseball game--his sister's dancing class.
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