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2) Heat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
3) Summerland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
In Summerland, on the Western tip of Clam Island, Washington, Ethan Feld and his friends must find a way to beat giants, goblins, a shape-shifter, a tough baseball club, and at the same time, find a way to save his father
Author
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Bestselling history of Little League Baseball and the World Series now available on KINDLE. The eBook is updated through 2013! Includes a new chapter on John Grisham's movie, "Mickey," the Danny Almonte scandal, Tee Ball on the South Lawn, Pitch Counts and Arm Injuries, Child Protection Act, ESPN and the new World of Little League Museum. "'Play Ball!' is a delightful walk down the storied history of Little League Baseball. For those of us who played...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Three guys spent their youth bearing the wrath of schoolyard bullies. They weren't tall, cool, and athletic, so they often got picked on by those who were. But when Gus convinces his two friends Richie and Clark to take some batting practice on a nearby Little League baseball field for old times sake, the three end up challenging a team of eleven-year-olds for the right to play on the field. Gus, often picked on because he was short, is nonetheless...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Morris Buttermaker is an alcoholic pest removal worker and for a very short period of time a former professional baseball player, is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team. All of these twelve-year-olds have been thrown out of the league. After losing every game they have played in so far, the kids force the coach to straighten up and teach them how to win before the season is over
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Earl Grubb's Pool Supplies plays Northeast Gas & Electric in the Little League championship game, while Sam, who has cancer and is in a wheelchair, has to call the play-by-play instead of participating in the game
8) Mickey
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
When widowed attorney Tripp Spence finds himself wanted by the IRS, he and his young pitching sensation son Derrick change their appearance, assume new identities and flee to Las Vegas. Here Derrick becomes "Mickey" and Tripp enrolls him in a second final year of Little League. But as the nation, the government and a nervous Tripp watch, "Mickey" leads his team from the city championship all the way to the controversial final game of the Little League...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Story of a boy who believed he could make a difference. Chuck is a star on his little league team, but when he decides to make a stand, to quit playing baseball until nuclear weapons disarmament is achieved, he angers some, and inspires others. This unusual and heartwarming tale asks: can one kid make a difference? If he gets the attention of the President, enough big name celebrities, and reporters, he just might.
11) Twelve
Publisher
Scarlet Sky Productions
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Follow the inspiring story of Kyle Cooke an eleven- year-old baseball player who, after moving to a new town and being unjustly cut from its all-star team, stops at nothing to make it to the World Series the following year. Kyles father, realizing his son may never get a chance to pursue his dream, finagles a way to get Kyle on a team in an opposing district. Understanding this is his one and only shot, he uses the rejection as motivation to become...
12) Home run
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Baseball star Cory Brand knows how to win. But off the field, he's spiraling out of control. Haunted by old wounds and regrets, his future seems as hopeless as his past. Until one moment - one mistake - changes everything. To save his career, Cory must go back to the town where it all began. His plan is simple: coach the Little League team, complete a recovery program, and get out as fast as possible. Instead, he runs headfirst into memories he can't...
13) Little big men
Series
30 for 30 volume no. 19
Publisher
Team Marketing
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
On August 28, 1982, Cody Webster and a small group of schoolyard friends from Kirkland, Washington, sat anxiously in a dugout waiting to take the field for the championship game of the Little League World Series. No American team had won a true international Little League World Series championship in more than a decade. What they did, how they did it, and what happened to each of the players in the years that followed is a multifaceted story, much...
14) The perfect game
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In 1957, a group of poor boys from Monterey, Mexico, led by a down-and-out former major league player, win the Little League World Series
Publisher
Feature Films for Familes
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
When 11-year-old Jason Ross is cut from his little league team his undefeatable spirit leads him to try and create an expansion team. In searching for a new coach, Jason comes to believe that Mack Henry is really Buck McHenry, the legendary pitcher from the old Negro Baseball Leagues. While Mack begins to coach this rag-tag team, Jason and his friends set out to prove his true identity
16) Let them play
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Recounts the true story of spirit and determination from America's early civil rights history and the Cannon Street all-stars who were not allowed to play in the World Series game
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As the Great Depression brought America to the brink of disaster, a devoted single mother in Cleveland, Ohio, wrestled triumph out of adversity by creating a community activity that would inspire the nation. Josephine Morhard's daughter-in-law recounts the extraordinary life and accomplishments of the woman who established the first boys' baseball league in America"--
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Twins Stacy and Gina Cavallaro are on rival little league teams, and when Gina accidentally unleashes a curse that wakes the dead, Stacy's misfit team gets coached by a baseball-playing zombie!"--Publisher's description.
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