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Baseball Stories |
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| Fiction |
7 Days at the Hot
Corner by Terry Trueman (F TRU)
In baseball, fielding your position at third base is tricky--that's
why third is called "the hot corner." You have to be aware that
anything can happen at any time. This should be the best year of
Scott's life: It's his last season of varsity ball, his team is
about to go to the city championship, and a pro career is on the
line. Instead, everything he always counted on comes crashing down
at the same time, and his whole life is like one blazing hot
corner--full of deadly line drives and crazy "bad hops." Scott can't
believe the awful stuff coming his way, but it's time to find out
whether he has what it takes to play the hot corner--on the baseball
diamond and off it. |
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Double Play
by Robert B. Parker (HF PAR)
It is 1947, the year Jackie Robinson breaks major-league baseball's
color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers - and changes the
world. This is the story of that season, as told through the eyes of
a difficult, brooding, and wounded man named Joseph Burke. A veteran
of World War II and a survivor of Guadalcanal, Burke is hired by
Brooklyn Dodgers manager Branch Rickey to guard Robinson. While
Burke shadows Robinson, a man of tremendous strength and character
suddenly thrust into the media spotlight, the bodyguard must also
face some hard truths of his own, in a world where the wrong
associations can prove fatal. |
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Summerland
by Michael Chabon (SF CHA)
Ethan Feld, the worst baseball player in the history of the game,
finds himself recruited by a 100-year-old scout to help a band of
fairies triumph over an ancient enemy. |
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Mexican Whiteboy
by Matt De La Pena (F PEN)
Danny, who is tall and skinny but has a talent for pitching a
fastball, cannot seem to fit in at school in San Diego, where his
Mexican and white heritage causes people to judge him before he even
speaks. |
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Baseball's Best
Short Stories (SC BAS)
Anthology of twenty-eight stories by celebrated authors, written
about, or having a backdrop of, baseball. |
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Farm Team
and others by Will Weaver (F WEA)
With his father in jail and his mother working full-time,
fourteen-year-old Billy Baggs finds himself in charge of running the
family farm in northern Minnesota and having to give up the thing he
loves most--baseball. |
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For
the Love of the Game by Michael Shaara (F SHA)
Baseball legend Billy Chapel, having learned that the owners are
planning to trade him after seventeen seasons, determines the game
he is about to pitch will be his last, and takes that opportunity to
go out with a bang. |
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| Nonfiction |
Autumn Glory:
Baseball's First World Series by Louis Masur (796.357
MAS)
A postseason series of games to establish supremacy in the major
leagues was not inevitable in the baseball world. But in 1903 the
owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates (in the well-established National
League) challenged the Boston Americans (in the upstart American
League) to a play-off, which he was sure his team would win. They
didn't -- and that wasn't the only surprise during what became the
first World Series. In Autumn Glory. Louis P. Masur tells the
riveting story of two agonizing weeks in which the stars blew it,
unknown players stole the show, hysterical fans got into the act,
and umpires had to hold on for dear life. |
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October
Men : Reggie Jackson, George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin, and the
Yankees' Miraculous Finish in 1978
by Roger Kahn (796.357 KAH)
On the Morning of October
2nd, 1978, the World Champion New York Yankees found themselves tied
for first place with the Boston Red Sox. That day these rousing ball
clubs would meet at Fenway Park. Both had won 99 games. Only one
would win 100. By any rational standard the Yankees should have been
reaching for their golf clubs. They had feuded, barked, and roared
all season, until by mid-July they were fourteen games out of first
place. Then came the spectacular self-destruction of Billy Martin:
The Yankees' fortunes turned and a fractious band of ballplayers
finally became a team. They capped one of the most thrilling
comebacks in baseball history by defeating the Red Sox that October
afternoon in a game that many still remember as the greatest ever
played. |
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Eight
Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series by Eliot
Asinof (364.1 ASI)
Describes the backgrounds and motives of the players, the actual
plays of the series, the indictments, and the famous 1921 trial. |
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Hammerin' Hank, George Almighty and the Say Hey Kid: The Year That
Baseball Changed Forever
by John Rosengren (796.357
ROS)
Provides an account of the 1973 baseball season during which Hank
Aaron, George Steinbrenner, Orlando Cepeda, Willie Mays, and Reggie
Jackson revived interest in the national pastime which had fallen to
an all-time low. |
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Senior
Year: A Father, a Son, and High School Baseball by Dan
Shaughnessy (796.357 SHA)
"Boston Globe" columnist Dan Shaughnessy chronicles his son Sam's
senior year of high school and makes comparisons to his own school
career, focusing on the baseball season during which Sam, a power
hitter, attracted the attention of Division 1 college programs. |
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| Biographies |
| Sandy Koufax, Roberto
Clemente, Joe DiMaggio, Alex Rodriguez, Hank Aaron, Derek Jeter,
Mickey Mantle, Lou Gehrig, Ichiro Suzuki, Barry Bonds, Jackie
Robinson, Ted Williams, Nolan Ryan, Willie Mays, Yogi Berra, Ken
Griffy, Jr., Stachel Paige, Billy Martin, David Cone, Orlando Cepeda,
Cal Ripken, Roy Campanella, Moe Berg, Jim Abbott, Ty Cobb, Babe
Ruth, Ryne Sandberg, Cy Young |
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