Look Who's Playing First Base
Mike Hagin offers his new friend from Russia the first baseman's position on the little league team before he finds out the boy can't play baseball.
FIC
year: 1971
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600
Six Innings
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.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 58
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 690
The Little League Team From The Black Lagoon
Hubie, who desperately wants to make the little league team in Spring, receives a new mitt from his mom and practices hard, but when he becomes sick, his big opportunity might escape him.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 50
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 440
subjects: little league baseball [X], baseball [X], sports, baseball stories, sports stories, athletics
Heat
A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist, while both sides attempt to find balance between their personal and their professional lives.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 238
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 940
subjects: brothers, orphans, illegal aliens, cubans, little league baseball [X], baseball [X], bronx, new york
Batter Up!
As he stands at bat for the first time for his Little League baseball team, a young boy reflects about all the effort it took to get to where he is now.
FIC
year: 1990
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 560
The Toilet Paper Tigers
When his Little League team gets a coach who knows nothing about baseball, seventh-grader Corey is dismayed to see the team taken over by the coach's pushy twelve-year-old granddaughter.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: little league baseball [X], baseball [X], humorous stories, humorous fiction, baseball stories
Champions On The Bench
Story based on the discrimination faced by the 1955 Cannon Street YMCA Little League All-Stars when the white teams refused to play them in the series tournament.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: baseball [X], little league baseball [X], race discrimination, african americans, south carolina
Six Good Innings
An account of the success of the Toms River Little League teams and the winning tradition they began in the 1990s.
796.35
year: 2009
copies: 2
call number/section: 796.35
lexile: 1130
Hey Batter Batter
Presents fifty poems that celebrate children's love of baseball, depicting the joys and frustrations of being a player and a fan.
811
year: 2003
copies: 2
call number/section: 811
lexile:
The Best Bat
"Little Rhino's baseball season is in full swing! Grandpa James even buys Rhino a new bat as a reward for keeping up with all of his school work.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: little league baseball [X], school children, grandfathers, lost and found possessions, baseball [X]
The Way Home Looks Now
In 1972, after his older brother is killed in a car crash, Peter Lee's mother is paralyzed by grief and his traditional Chinese father seems emotionally frozen--but Peter hopes that if he joins a Little League team in Pittsburgh he can reawaken the passion for baseball that all the members of his family used to share and bring them back to life.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: chinese american families, bereavement, baseball [X], grief, traffic accidents, baseball stories, chinese americans, little league baseball [X], pittsburgh (pa.)
Change Up
"Derek is sure this will be the best season yet! He has it all planned-his dad will have him start at shortstop, and the team will cruise to a championship.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 53
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: jeter, derek, little league baseball [X], teamwork (sports), sports, baseball [X], sports fiction, autobiographical fiction, family life, baseball players, coaches (athletics), fathers and sons, father-son relationship, baseball stories
The Away Game
"Coach Ray has some exciting news! After a great season, the Mustangs made it into a tournament.
FIC
year:
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 510
subjects: little league baseball [X], baseball [X], sleepovers, fear, baseball stories, sports fiction
The Talent Show
"Rhino and Cooper overhear their shy teammate, Carlos, singing in the dugout.
FIC
year:
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 550
Anderson's Heat
Anderson is the star pitcher on his Little League team of eleven-and-twelve-year-olds, and his team is in the running for the Little League World Series, but this summer he is finding it hard to concentrate on baseball because his sister has been diagnosed with leukemia, and as the summer progresses she seems to be getting worse.
FIC
year:
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 540
subjects: pitching (baseball), leukemia, brothers and sisters, baseball stories, little league baseball [X], baseball [X], siblings