Skeeter is the best batter in the league but seems to be all thumbs when fielding or trying to make friends.

Seventh grader and math wiz Trish plans to play on the baseball team, but fellow math wiz Ben thinks baseball is a torture he would like to avoid--but now the two, who competed against each other in a math tournament, find themselves on the same baseball team. Includes recipes and math facts.

"In this picture book Lucy and her friends learn the basics of baseball, including catching, hitting and fielding, then try their new skills in a real game."--

The Pitcher, is a classic story of baseball, the price of dreams, and the lessons of life. A mythic baseball story about a broken down World Series Pitcher is mourning over the death of his wife and an underprivileged Mexican-American boy who lives across the street and wants to learn to pitch. This is a mainstream contemporary novel about dreams lost and found. In the great tradition of books like, The Natural. This is a novel with the mythic themes,...

Sam Fowler, returning to San Francisco on Amtrak after burying his father in Cleveland, steps off the train when it makes an unscheduled stop and finds he has traveled back in time to 1869 where he joins the Cincinnati Red Stockings, baseball's first all-professional team, and makes a new life for himself in post-Civil War America.

Twelve-year-old Josh looks forward to facing a true rival in the Baseball Hall of Fame tournament, but first he and his friends Jaden and Benji put themselves at great risk trying to expose the truth about a conspiracy to bribe the head umpire.

"The team has a new coach and their energy is at an all-time high. When they decide to head to the mountains and train at Kyuma's home, a mysterious figure arrives and changes everything."--cover, p.4.