"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 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.

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.

Two teams of bats play an exciting nighttime baseball game.

Curious George's natural inclination to find out more about everything leads him to interfere with a baseball game.

Jimmie, captain of the Planets, makes himself pitcher, although the team wants Paul to pitch. Jimmie pitches poorly and Paul joins another team. Even Jimmie's kid brother doesn't like his brother's behavior. With the first game approaching, Jimmie must do something for the team and for himself.

Arthur really wants to play baseball on the Little League team with his friends, but when Francine teases him because he cannot seem to catch a ball, he worries that his skills are never going to be good enough.

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

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.

Flat Stanley finds himself trying out for the baseball team and outwitting the best players until the fairness of his "flat-vantage" is called into question.