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The Prince Of Fenway Park

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Julianna Baggott
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Book, 1st ed, HarperCollins, 2009
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Someone deliberately jinxed the team, and the secret to breaking the Curse lies deep below Fenway Park, with Oscar’s dad and the Cursed Creatures, a group that has been doomed to live out their miserable lives below Fenway until the Curse is broken. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Boston Red Sox (Baseball team) · Juvenile fiction · Fenway Park (Boston, Mass.) · Fiction · Orphans · Fathers and sons · Time travel · Supernatural · Baseball · Baggott, Julianna
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The Girl Who Threw Butterflies

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Mick Cochrane
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Book, 1st ed, Alfred A. Knopf, 2009
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Baseball stories · Pitchers (Baseball) · Juvenile fiction · Sex role · Grief · Mothers and daughters · Friendship · Baseball · Fiction · Buffalo (N.Y.) · Cochrane, Mick
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The Desperado Who Stole Baseball

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John H. Ritter
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Book, Philomel Books, 2009
Description
Dillontown was built upon a gold mine. Fortunately, Dillontown is home to two boys who know a little something about winning. One is young Jack Dillon, nephew to Dillontown founder Long John Dillon. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Billy, · the Kid · Juvenile fiction · Fiction · Baseball · History · Orphans · Frontier and pioneer life · California · 1850-1950 · Ritter, John H., 1951-
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Willie And The Barnstormin’ All-Stars

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Floyd Cooper
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Book, Philomel Books, 2008
Description
Willie, an African-American boy growing up in Chicago, dreams of playing baseball in the Major Leagues, like his idols. Until, that is, Ezra hands him two tickets to an exhibition all-star game between Major Leaguers and Negro Leaguers, and Willie sees firsthand how determination can change everything. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Baseball · Fiction · Negro Leagues · African Americans · Race relations · Chicago (Ill.) · History · 20th century · Cooper, Floyd
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Six Innings : A Game In The Life

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James Preller
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Book, 1st ed, Feiwel and Friends, 2008
Description
But as the book unfolds, pitch by pitch, a deeper story emerges, with far more at stake: Sam and Mike, best friends, are trying to come to terms with Sam’s newly diagnosed cancer. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Little League baseball · Juvenile fiction · Cancer · Fiction · Baseball · Preller, James
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Dreaming Baseball

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by James T. Farrell ; edited by Ron Briley, Margaret Davidson, and James Barbour ; foreword by Eliot Asinof
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Book, Kent State University Press, 2007
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- Table of contents only
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Chicago White Sox (Baseball team) · Fiction · Baseball · Corrupt practices · United States · Farrell, James T. 1904-1979 · Briley, Ron, 1949- · Davidson, Margaret, 1936- · Barbour, James, 1933-
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Painting The Black

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by Carl Deuker
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Book, Houghton Mifflin, 1997
Description
In his senior year of high school, late bloomer Ryan Ward has just begun to feel the magic of baseball - the magic of catching a wicked slider, of throwing a runner out, of training hard and playing hard and pushing his limits. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Self-perception · Fiction · Baseball · High schools · Schools · Deuker, Carl
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Team Picture

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Dean Hughes
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Book, 1st ed, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1996
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Foster home care · Fiction · Baseball · Hughes, Dean, 1943-
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When Willard Met Babe Ruth

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a story by Donald Hall ; illustrated by Barry Moser
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Book, 1st ed, Browndeer Press, 1996
Description
It is 1917 in rural New Hampshire when twelve-year-old Willard Babson and his father see a roadster slide into a ditch in front of them. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Ruth, Babe, · 1895-1948 · Juvenile fiction · Fiction · Baseball · Hall, Donald, 1928- · Moser, Barry
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Farm Team

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by Will Weaver
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Book, 1st ed, HarperCollins, 1995
Description
With Gina Erickson in right field, Big Danny Boyer is left, and Skinner, the aging Labrador retriever, in center, the team’s lineup is a joke. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Baseball · Fiction · Family problems · Farm life · Minnesota · Weaver, Will
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Heart Of A Champion

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Carl Deuker
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Book, 1st ed, Joy Street Books, 1993
Description
Seth and Jimmy have the kind of friendship you can’t put into words-thekind you think only happens in books and movies. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Baseball · Fiction · Friendship · Deuker, Carl
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Mayfield Crossing

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Vaunda Micheaux Nelson ; with illustrations by Leonard Jenkins
Publication Details
Book, Putnam, 1993
Description
All the kids from Mayfield Crossing are excited about going to the new school at Parkview. t’s the first time any of the Mayfield kids have experienced the real pain of prejedice, but by sticking together they all become outsiders…and discover that overcoming trouble can be the strenght that makes a winning team. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Race relations · Fiction · Prejudices · Schools · Baseball · Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux · Jenkins, Leonard
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The Trading Game

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Alfred Slote
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Lippincott, 1990
Description
During a summer of baseball and baseball card trading, eleven-year-old Andy makes discoveries about his father, his grandfather, who played professional baseball, and himself. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Baseball · Fiction · Baseball cards · Fathers and sons · Grandfathers · Slote, Alfred
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With A Name Like Lulu, Who Needs More Trouble?

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Tricia Springstubb ; illustrated by Jill Kastner
Publication Details
Book, Delacorte Press, 1989
Description
Shy and retiring Lulu, whose greatest passion is baseball, finds her life changed dramatically when she saves a toddler who jumps out of an apartment house window. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Self-confidence · Fiction · Interpersonal relations · Mothers and daughters · Baseball · Springstubb, Tricia · Kastner, Jill
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Bobby Baseball

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by Robert Kimmel Smith ; illustrated by Alan Tiegreen
Publication Details
Book, Delacorte Press, 1989
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Baseball · Fiction · Self-perception · Fathers and sons · Smith, Robert Kimmel, 1930- · Tiegreen, Alan
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