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1) Shoeless Joe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
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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.
2) 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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"When pro baseball player Chase Walker first meets Amanda at her restaurant, it's love at first sight. While Amanda can't help noticing the superstar with the Greek-god-build, he doesn't have a chance of getting to first--or any other--base with her. A successful entrepreneur who's built her business from scratch, Amanda doesn't need a Prince Charming to sweep her off her feet. And a curvy girl who likes to cook and eat isn't interested in being around...
4) Sizzling
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A former professional baseball pitcher and owner of the family sports bar, Reid Buchanan attracts all the women around him, except for his grandmother's nurse, Lori Johnston, a woman determined to remain professional at all costs.
5) Double play
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In 1947, as Jackie Robinson breaks the major league baseball color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Joseph Burke, a World War II veteran and survivor of Guadalcanal, is hired by Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to be Robinson's bodyguard.
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Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 18
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This biography examines the life and career of one of Major League Baseball's biggest legends. At 30, Brooklyn-born L.A. Dodger Sandy Koufax walked away from baseball, accomplishing all he wanted to while playing the game he loved. Adored by fans and his fellow athletes, he left behind an incredible legacy--one that southpaw pitchers have tried to live up to for decades.
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"Police Chief Jesse Stone is back in the remarkable new installment of the New York Times-bestselling series. It's been a long time since Jesse Stone left L.A., and longer still since the tragic injury that ruined his chances for a professional baseball career. When Jesse is invited to a reunion of his old Triple-A team, he is forced to grapple with his memories and his regrets over what might have been. But his time at the reunion is cut short...
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Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 3
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Able to Play shares the inspiring stories of four baseball players. Mordecai (Three Finger) Brown, Ron Santo, Jim Abbott, and Curtis Pride faced physical challenges other players did not have. With determination and guts, they didn't just overcome; they excelled. This book is a game-changing celebration of overcoming odds.
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"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 books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game's history. Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional...
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"In a small town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her house. Everyone in town, including her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and she doesn't correct them. In New York, Dean Tenney, former major-league pitcher and Andy's childhood friend, is struggling with a case of the "yips": he can't throw straight anymore, and he can't figure out why. An invitation from Andy to stay in Maine for a few months...
11) Fireside
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Bo Crutcher, a professional baseball player, gets help from Kimberly van Dorn, a public relations expert, in dealing with both the media and his long-lost son, AJ. It's while spending the winter with Bo and AJ at Willow Lake, Kimberly begins to fall in love with her client
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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A lavishly illustrated edition of the famous poem, which was first published in 1888. This edition presents it as if found in a vintage scrapbook, complete with fictional news clippings and advertisements about baseball's early days.
13) The Natural
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
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Now an American baseball hero and a winner after a dark period, Roy finds the woman he thought he had lost. But he is up against corrupters, seducers, and glory destroyers. And he has to win the toughest game of his life.
14) One perfect lie
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2017.
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"One Perfect Lie is an emotional thriller and a suburban crime story that will keep you guessing until you turn the very last page. On the surface, it tells the tale of the struggling single mother of a high-school pitcher, a shy kid so athletically talented that he's being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But the mother fears that she's losing her grip on her son because he's being...
15) The phenom
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[2016]
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Ever since Hopper was a child, he has dreamed of becoming a major-league pitcher. Relentlessly pushed and punished by his abusive father, he's on the verge of becoming one of the game's most promising players when he unexpectedly breaks down on the mound. Now Hopper's only hope for a future lies with an unorthodox sports therapist who urges him to piece together the past and confront the man who is both bully and family.
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[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 2
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A collection of stories and statistics describing the history and legend of the home run providing brief profiles on some of the game's greatest long ball hitters including Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, and Frank Robinson.
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Hot and hammered volume 1
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A brand new romantic comedy from New York Times bestseller Tessa Bailey! Georgette Castle's family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven't taken her seriously since. Frankly, she's over it. Georgie loves planning children's birthday parties and making people laugh, just not at her own expense. She's determined to fix herself up into a Woman of the World... whatever that means....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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A biography of Jackie Robinson, the first African-American player in major league baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, discussing his family, college and military years, athletic abilities, career in the Negro Leagues, move to the majors, and activism on behalf of African-Americans.