Baseball Fiction

George Henry Alexander is a huge fan of baseball. His favorite team is the New York Yankees and his favorite player is Babe Ruth. George plays baseball during his free time and he listens to the games on the radio with his dad. Everywhere he goes, he carries his Babe Ruth baseball card. On his birthday, George's parents surprise him with two tickets to watch the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees - his first real game!

There's nothing eight-year-old twins Zach and Zoe Walker love more than playing sports and solving mysteries. And when those two worlds collide...well, it doesn't get any better than that. So when a baseball signed by Zach's favorite major league player suddenly goes missing - the search is on! Luckily, amateur sleuths Zach and Zoe are on the case.

What happens when a 40-year-old body tries to relive the days of sandlot baseball? A story of how the body and its learned reflexes can get you into trouble.

All good things must come to an end. After spending all of their free time every summer practicing and playing baseball, Malachi, Elizajane, Noah, and Elias must grow up. Playing on the magic diamond against the best players in baseball history would remain one of their greatest experiences, but the field is reserved for the young at heart only, and the big world is good at making people into adults. One Easter, when the four kids are much older and Malachi has kids of his own, they begin talking about the magic diamond they used to play on as kids.

Mysteries follow super-sleuth Cam Jansen everywhere she goes...even to the community hobby show. Cam and Eric are checking out a sports-memorabilia booth when a baseball autographed by Babe Ruth disappears. Can Cam catch the thief and recover the Babe's ball?

How does a tree become a baseball bat? First, a tree is cut into logs. Then logs are cut and shaped. Next a machine carves them. Then the bat is sanded. Follow the process step by step.

This is a story from the viewpoint of a talking baseball from birth to retirement. "As a Major League Baseball, when they put on my cover with over 200 stitches, it tickles me (hee, hee!). Yay! Twelve of us are now being shipped to some baseball park in the United States! I wonder where we’ll end up."

Meet five-year-old Timmy Martin! He's the biggest baseball fan in the world. Imagine Timmy's excitement when he gets invited to his cousin's birthday party. Only it's not just any old birthday party...it's a baseball birthday party! Timmy and the Baseball Birthday Party is the first book in a series of stories featuring the world's most curious five-year-old!

The Underwater Baseball Game takes place in Poseidon's kingdom. Both teams don't realize that the God of the Sea has been watching them play the entire time because he wants to see if they are team players or sore losers. What happens at the end of the game? Who do they meet?

Malachi. Elizajane, Noah, and Elias practice their ball-playing skills every night in the park, getting ready for games on the weekend on their magic diamond. They are lucky enough to play baseball against the greatest players the game had ever seen. With dedication and hard work, the kids make a load of progress on the field. There are a few things, however, which might ensure they embarrass themselves during the games. It’s a good thing Elias and Malachi have a surprise ready. Another day, another exciting and wonderful day on the magic diamond.

The time had finally come for me to take matters into my own hands. By this I mean my life. My father is the current owner of one of the biggest teams in history. The problem is he controls my whole life. Everything in it is up to him. Now it is my turn to do what I want and take what I want. What I want is Jase Michaels. We come up with a plan to get me out from under my father's thumb, blackmail.

Baseball Saved Us is about a Japanese American boy who learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an internment camp during World War II. Hearing about how his ability to play the game helps him after the war is over adds to this touching story. A Passage to Freedom offers an even more dramatic understanding of the difficult decision that the Japanese diplomat made in 1940.