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1) Bull Durham
Series
Criterion collection volume 936
Description
A fan who has an affair with one minor-league baseball player each season meets an up-and-coming pitcher and the experienced catcher assigned to him.
Author
Series
Mickey Tussler novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
After his manager persuades him to play for another season, Mickey and the team must deal with racial threats when an African American player joins the Brewers.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Angry with his mother for having too little time for him, eleven-year-old Felix takes advantage of an opportunity to become bat boy for a minor league baseball team, hoping to someday be like his father, a famous Cuban outfielder. Includes glossaries of baseball terms and Spanish words and phrases.
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Minor league baseball player Carlton Garrett takes an unplanned road trip to find his estranged father, legendary baseball player Kyle Garrett, after his mother becomes ill. Knowing that his father is charming, yet extremely immature, he brings along his sometimes girlfriend for support. After father and son are reunited, Carlton must struggle to deal with the misadventures brought on by his father's antics. Frustrations from the past come to a head...
7) Sugar
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Miguel 'Sugar' Santos is a talented Dominican baseball player who longs to break into the American big league and earn the money needed to support his impoverished family. He is a talented pitcher who might just have what it takes to earn a prized spot on a Major League Baseball team. Before that happens he'll have to prove his worth in the minor leagues. Advancing in baseball's minor league system at the tender age of 19, Miguel is warmly welcomed...
9) Summer catch
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Lawnboy Brian Dunne joins an elite summer baseball league in Cape Cod and falls for a vacationing Vassar grad. Her family, however, does not think him suitable.
11) Stealing home
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
With her dreams of taking over her Texas family's minor league baseball franchise in jeopardy, seventeen-year-old Ryan Russell works with their newest player to save the team--even if it means breaking the rules.
13) Bull Durham
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Catcher Crash Davis is closing in on a dubious record: all-time home run leader for the minor leagues. Trying to continue his career in a very unforgiving sport, Davis finds his contract bought out, and he is sent to the Durham Bulls. Seems the Bulls have a bona fide major league pitching prospect -- Ebby Calvin LaLoosh. The thinking is that with Davis' knowledge of the game he will be able to season LaLoosh and prepare him for "the show." LaLoosh...
14) Sugar
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Miguel 'Sugar' Santos is a talented Dominican baseball player who longs to break into the American big league and earn the money needed to support his impoverished family. He is a talented pitcher who might just have what it takes to earn a prized spot on a Major League Baseball team. Before that happens he'll have to prove his worth in the minor leagues. Advancing in baseball's minor league system at the tender age of 19, Miguel is warmly welcomed...
15) Squeeze play
Author
Series
Nancy Drew Files volume 97
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
From Pulitzer Prize-winning "New York Times" columnist Dan Barry comes the beautifully recounted story of the longest game in baseball history--a tale celebrating not only the robust intensity of baseball, but the aspirational ideal epitomized by the hard-fighting players of the minor leagues.
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