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1) Calico Joe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Tthe careers of a golden-boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths.
2) Double play
Author
Language
English
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Description
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.
Joseph Burke, physically and emotionally wounded in World War II, finds hope and healing during a season spent serving as bodyguard to Jackie Robinson in 1947, the year Robinson broke the color barrier...
3) Sizzling
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Series
Language
English
Description
Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Reid Buchanan, a former pro baseball pitcher and current owner of his family's sports bar, has a history of making women swoon. But not all women--especially his grandmother's nurse, Lori Johnson, who is determined to remain professional.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
A baseball star at a small college near Lake Michigan launches a routine throw that goes disastrously off course and inadvertently changes the lives of five people, including the college president, a gay teammate, and the president's daughter.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Stephen King comes the haunting story of Blockade Billy , the greatest Major League baseball player to be erased from the game. 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...
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Series
Barefoot William volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"No one expects a curveball. For Rylan Cates, the gloriously sunny beachside town of Barefoot William may be home, but the pro baseball player needs to focus on spring training. Hiring a personal assistant to keep him and his four dogs organized for the next eight weeks is the first step--and Beth Avery is the perfect pinch hitter. Beth is still looking for her place in the world, and a couple months caring for Rylan's two dachshunds, his golden retriever,...
Author
Series
Johnny Adcock mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relief pitcher/private investigator Johnny Adcock doesn't have an office; he has the bullpen. That's where he sits shelling sunflower seeds when in walks a femme-fatale blonde claiming to be a TV reporter. She is Tiff Tate, the highly-paid stylist responsible for half the looks in Major League Baseball, from Brian Wilson's beard to Big Papi's gold ropes. Tiff has a problem. Yonel Ruiz-the rookie phenom who infamously escaped from Cuba by surviving...
Author
Series
Play by play novels volume 2
Publisher
Heat
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When sports agent Liz Darnell realizes she risks losing her number one client, she offers herself as part of the bargain.
Author
Series
Willie Black mysteries volume 3
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
When his mother's boyfriend is severely wounded by a shooter, reporter Willie Black's investigation uncovers players from the 1964 Richmond Virginians are being targeted.
17) Sweet spot
Author
Publisher
Kengsington Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When James Law Lawless, the very same man with whom she had a hot one-night stand at a costume party, hires her to help him expand his off-the-field business empire, Catherine Cat May must keep her identity secret from the star second baseman in an attempt to avoid mixing business with pleasure.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
Description
After crashing a celebrity wedding in an attempt to reclaim her self-esteem after being jilted at the altar, Jodi Carlyle has a one-night stand with a stranger only to discover that he will be the best man at her sister's wedding.
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