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Gil Renard is a knife salesman whose life is rapidly spiralling downward. He's just lost his job and his wife and child. But he still has one thing left-- a fanatic, all-consuming passion for baseball. Bobby Rayburn is a baseball superstar who falls into a demoralizing slump after signing with the team Gil lives and breathes for. Blinded by his manic fixation on Rayburn and the team, Gil Renard is the obsessed fan who is about to cross the line...

Smarty Marty, and her little brother Mikey, are back in the first in a series of illustrated chapter books, about a girl who loves baseball, written by San Francisco Giants in-game reporter Amy Gutierrez. Smarty Marty is the official scorekeeper for her little brother’s Little League team. But when the game announcer fails to show up for the first game, Marty is called to announce the game, inspiring her dream not only to score but to announce....

"NPR's Scott Simon's personal, heartfelt reflections on his beloved Chicago Cubs, replete with club lore, memorable anecdotes, frenetic fandom and wise and adoring intimacy that have made the world champion Cubbies baseball's most tortured--and now triumphant--franchise. No metaphor is necessary; the Chicago Cubs have been the living example of disappointment and failure for more than a century--until now. The Cubs' 2016 World Series win marked the...

The author explores her childhood in Rockville Centre, Long Island and how baseball, especially the play of the Brooklyn Dodgers, was important in her relationships with family, friends, and neighbors.