Sports

Twelve-year-old Matthew moves to Montreal in the summer of 1946, and gets a job at the baseball stadium to watch Jackie Robinson break into the major league.
221 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Racism, Baseball

After moving to New Jersey following his parents divorce, Jimmy tries out for the 7th grade baseball team, and has to prove himself as a pitcher in a new town.
105 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Baseball

Michael Arroyo has a dream of pitching in the Little League World Series, and an arm that throws serious heat. But, orphaned after his family fled from Cuba, Michael has no one to watch out for him except his older brother, who is only 17, and if Social Services hears of the boys' situation, they will be separated in the foster care system-or even worse, sent back to Cuba.
220 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Baseball

Many baseball players claim that Satchel Paige was the fastest pitcher in the history of the game. Stosh and his coach are on a mission to find out. With radar gun in tow, they travel back to 1942 and watch Satch pitch to power hitter Josh Gibson in the Negro League World Series.
192 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Baseball, Racism

Jackie Mitchell loved baseball. And before long she could outplay anyone in her neighborhood -- even the boys. But no seventeen-year-old girl could pitch against Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Then on April 2, 1931, the New York Yankees stopped in Tennessee for an exhibition game. And on that day, Jackie Mitchell made baseball history.
32 pages, Grade 3
related subjects:  Baseball

The fate of a small California town rests on the outcome of one baseball game, and Tom Gallagher hopes to lead his team to victory with the secrets of the now disgraced player, Dante Del Gato.
224 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Baseball

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.
500 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Baseball, Fairies

Joe Stoshack travels back to 1919, where he meets Shoeless Joe Jackson and tries to prevent the fixing of the World Series in which Jackson was wrongly implicated.
176 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Baseball

With their ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe and his father have the opportunity to find out whether Babe Ruth really did call his shot when he hit that homerun in the third game of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs.
176 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Baseball

Paulie Lockwood's best friend Todd Bannister is destined for the major leagues until a line drive to the head causes him to lose an eye and they both must find a new future for themselves.
245 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Baseball

With his ability to travel through time by using baseball cards, Joe goes back to 1947 to meet Jackie Robinson, the man who broke baseball's color barrier.
160 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Baseball, Racism

In 1921 thirteen-year-old Luke finds himself torn between accepting his left-handedness or conforming to the belief of his preacher-father that such a condition is evil and must be overcome.
176 pages, Grades 5 and up
related subjects:  Baseball, Fathers

Joey, who loves baseball but is not very good at it, finds a valuable 1909 Honus Wagner card and travels back in time to meet Honus.
144 pages, Grades 4-6
related subjects:  Baseball

True stories of boneheaded plays, major league mess-ups, and other baseball bloopers.
176 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Baseball

The third book in The Kid from Tomkinsville series.
Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Baseball

Roy Tucker, the Kid from Tomkinsville, joins the rest of his Dodger teammates in a come-from-behind battle for the series title.
272 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Baseball

As the newest addition to the Brooklyn Dodgers, young Roy Tucker's pitching helps pull the team out of a slump; but, when a freak accident ends his career as a pitcher, he must try to find another place for himself on the team.
304 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Baseball

After her mother's death, twelve-year-old Molly learns that her father is a basketball star for the Boston Celtics.
246 pages, Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Fathers, Basketball

Uncoordinated Kansas 7th grader, Kirby Nickel, braves his coach's anger and becomes captain of the basketball team in order to help him prove that NBA star Brett McGrew is the father he never knew.
198 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Basketball, Fathers, Funny

Stanford Wong is having a bad summer. If he flunks his summer-school English class, he won't pass sixth grade. If that happens, he won't start on the A-team. If *that* happens, his friends will abandon him and Emily Ebers won't like him anymore. And if THAT happens, his life will be over.
304 pages, Grades 4-7
related subjects:  Basketball, Fathers, Funny

Steven has won a coveted press pass for the Final Four. But the games going on behind the scenes between the coaches, the players, the media, the money-men, and the fans turn out to be even more fiercely competitive than those on the court. Steven and his fellow winner, Susan, overhear a threat to throw the championship game. Now they have just 48 hours to figure out who is blackmailing one of MSU’s star players . . . and why.
256 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Basketball, Detectives

Twelve-year-old Danny Walker may be the smallest kid on the basketball court--but don't tell him that. Because no one plays with more heart or court sense. But none of that matters when he is cut from his local travel team, the very same team his father led to national prominence as a boy.
288 pages, Grades 5-7
related subjects:  Basketball, Fathers

Sixteen-year-old "Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but his coach sees things differently. 272 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  Basketball, High School

A teenage basketball player from Harlem is befriended by a former professional player who, after being forced to quit because of a point shaving scandal, hopes to prevent other young athletes from repeating his mistake.
192 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  Basketball, High School

Bill Bradley was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen. Here is a portrait of Bradley as he was in college, before his time with the New York Knicks and his election to the U.S. Senate—a story that suggests the abundant beginnings of his professional careers in sport and politics.
144 pages, Grades 6 and up
related subjects:  Basketball

A high school football player struggles with alcohol dependency and ends up at a rehab school for teenagers.
224 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  Football, High School

Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family.
176 pages, Grades 3-6
related subjects:  Football, Grandparents, Boy Bullies

When Paul Faustino of LA NACION goes to interview El Gato, the phenomenal goalkeeper who single-handedly brought his team the World Cup, the reporter quickly learns that this will be no ordinary story. Instead, the legendary El Gato ("The Cat") tells a tale of the South American rain forest, where a ghostly mentor, the Keeper, teaches him the secrets of the game.
240 pages, Grades 8 and up
related subjects:  Soccer, South America

Though legally blind, Paul Fisher can see that his parents' praise of his brother, Erik, the football star, is to cover up something terribly wrong. But no one listens--until his family moves to Tangerine where weird is normal: lightning strikes at the same time every day, a sinkhole swallows the school, and Paul finds himself adopted into the toughest group around: the soccer team at his middle school.
324 pages, Grades 7 and up
related subjects:  Brothers, Soccer