Baseball Mouse

Baseball Mouse
Author: Syd Hoff
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1969
Genre: Ambition
ISBN: 9780399207051

Bernard was a field mouse--an infield mouse--who more than anything else wanted to help the losing team win the pennant.

The Anatomy of Baseball Nicknames

The Anatomy of Baseball Nicknames
Author: Ken Melley
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2020-11-08
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1642143782

The Anatomy of Baseball Nicknames is filled with a selection of over seven hundred monikers given athletes, mostly in the game of baseball, that will make for an enjoyable read whether you are a fan of "America's Game" or not. Be it "the Left Arm of God" or "the Octopus" or "the Gooney Bird," all of these have been tagged to significant ballplayers in their major league careers. Besides the major leagues, which date back to the late 1800s, there is a wonderful parallel history of Negro Basebal

Baseball

Baseball
Author: Kenny Thomas
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-12-12
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1492585505

Become a fundamentally sound player in every aspect of the game with Baseball: Steps to Success. For years, the Steps to Success series has helped people around the world master the fundamentals of sport. Its unique progressive instructional approach to every skill makes learning the game of baseball easier and more enjoyable than ever before. With Baseball: Steps to Success, the road map to becoming a five-tool player is at your fingertips. Step out of the dugout and onto the diamond with confidence in your skills in the game’s most important areas: • Hitting • Bunting • Throwing • Fielding • Pitching • Catching • Baserunning • Situational play Drawing on more than 76 self-improvement and practice drills that include skills broken down to their most basic techniques, you’ll be a threat every time you step to the plate or take the mound. Baseball: Steps to Success leaves no area of the game uncovered. Whether you’re learning, teaching, or coaching, Baseball: Steps to Success will help you master this great game. Part of the best-selling series with more than 1.7 million copies sold, it is your guide to on-the-field excellence.

Mice at Bat

Mice at Bat
Author: Kelly Oechsli
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1990-05-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780064441391

It's the Mighty Mites vs. the Boomers. Excitement is in the air and the fans hang on every pitch. The score is breathlessly close ... until the Boomers bring in their pinch hitter, Big Jax. He's a real rat. But the Mighty Mites have a secret weapon of their own.

The Case of the Mixed-Up Mutts

The Case of the Mixed-Up Mutts
Author: Dori Hillestad Butler
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Total Pages: 63
Release: 2010-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0807592455

Buddy was adopted from the P-O-U-N-D and he likes his new family, but he's still searching for Kayla-his first family. What has happened to them? He hopes to solve that mystery soon, but right now he's got another urgent case-two dogs, Muffin and Jazzy, have been switched! How can Buddy get poor Muffin and Jazzy back to their real owners?

The Baseball MEGAPACK ®

The Baseball MEGAPACK ®
Author: Zane Grey
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 1600
Release: 2013-04-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1434446603

Baseball. For more than a hundred years, it's been the subject of short stories. Here is a classic collection of 20th Century tales by such masters as Zane Gray, Michael Avallone, Octavus Roy Cohen, and others -- including 6 novels in the "Baseball Joe" series! Included are: AW, LET THE KID HIT, by Michael Avallone THE WILD MAN, by Octavus Roy Cohen THE TRUMP CARD, by Octavus Roy Cohen MacGINLEY CATCHES MICE, by A. Lincoln Bender J ACK AND THE BEAN BALL, by Samuel G. Camp INFORM MR. SWEENEY, by Samuel G. Camp THE REDHEADED OUTFIELD, by Zane Grey THE RUBE, by Zane Grey THE RUBE'S PENNANT, by Zane Grey THE RUBE'S HONEYMOON, by Zane Grey THE RUBE'S WATERLOO, by Zane Grey BREAKING INTO FAST COMPANY, by Zane Grey THE KNOCKER, by Zane Grey THE WINNING BALL, by Zane Grey FALSE COLORS, by Zane Grey THE MANAGER OF MADDEN’S HILL, by Zane Grey OLD WELL-WELL, by Zane Grey THE YOUNG PITCHER, by Zane Grey BASEBALL JOE OF THE SILVER STARS, by Lester Chadwick BASEBALL JOE ON THE SCHOOL NINE, by Lester Chadwick BASEBALL JOE AT YALE, by Lester Chadwick BASEBALL JOE IN THE CENTRAL LEAGUE, by Lester Chadwick BASEBALL JOE IN THE BIG LEAGUE, by Lester Chadwick BASEBALL JOE AROUND THE WORLD, by Lester Chadwick And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the 100+ entries in the Megapack series -- including volumes of science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, westerns, and much, much more!

Baseball: Steps to Success

Baseball: Steps to Success
Author: Thomas, Kenny
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-11-23
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1492504572

Mastering the skills in the field, on the mound, and at the plate has never been easier. Steps to Success allows you to learn at your own pace, providing detailed instruction, expert advice, practice drills, and self-assessments to gauge progress. A new entry in the best-selling sport instruction series, this highly visual, easy-to-use guide is ideal for novice and intermediate players and coaches alike.

Minotaur Planet

Minotaur Planet
Author: Thom L. Nichols
Publisher: Thom L Nichols
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2010-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1450576966

Durf isn't dead. Brianna's Call is back.It's all happening again, but nothing is the same. The world is populated by minotaurs and it's all happening at the World Series. Finding Durf alive, Billy is transported to an alternate world where he finds Durf inhabiting a female baseball player named Billie. Trying to get to Brianna's call, and thinking that he went back in time, Durf didn't realize that Billie wasn't Billy and that the World Series wasn't the Super Bowl or even that Billie was a girl and not a guy. Making matters worse, Brianna's Call is being chased by a fleet of ships trying to figure out a way to use the magic. Unfortunately, they accidentally transformed it solid and now it's about to crash into the Earth. While trying to transform it back, Billy and the others are forced to confront Durfs from this planet, weapons left behind by the Norse Gods, and alien wizards all while pretending to be female baseball players.

The Buddy Files Boxed Set #1-3

The Buddy Files Boxed Set #1-3
Author: Dori Hillestad Butler
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2021-04-15
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0807599956

It's three times the mystery and three times the fun in one boxed set! Join Buddy, a newly adopted dog, as he solves mysteries in his first three adventures of the award-winning Buddy Files chapter book series. This boxed set includes The Case of the Lost Boy, The Case of the Mixed-Up Mutts, The Case of the Missing Family, more than fifty stickers, and a journal to jot down clues to solve your own mysteries.

The Collected Baseball Stories

The Collected Baseball Stories
Author: Charles Emmett Van Loan
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780786418176

Between 1909 and 1919 Charles Emmett Van Loan published an amazing nine collections of short stories, including four baseball books-The Big League (1909), The Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm (1912), The Lucky Seventh (1913) and Score By Innings (1919). Grantland Rice, in the Introduction to Score By Innings, described Van Loan as "sport's greatest fiction writer and soul (sic) historian," and claimed that "no other man has ever unfolded the romance and humor of baseball half as well." This volume brings together Van Loan's baseball stories, including those in The Big League ("The Crab," "The Low Brow," "The Fresh Guy," "The Quitter," "The Bush League Demon," "The Cast-Off," "The Busher," "A Job for the Pitcher," "The Golden Ball of the Argonauts"); The Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm ("The Ten-Thousand-Dollar Arm," "Sweeney to Sanguinetti to Schultz," "Little Sunset," "The Loosening Up of Hogan," "The Phantom League," "The Comeback," "Behind the Mask," "McCluskey's Prodigal"); The Lucky Seventh ("A Rain Check," "The Mexican Marvel," "The Good Old Wagon," "For Revenue Only," "The Bachelor Benedict," "'Butterfly' Boggs: Pitcher," "Will a Duck Swim?", "Crossed 'Signs,'" "Won Off the Diamond," "The Pitch-Out"); and Score By Innings ("The National Commission Decides," "Puite vs. Puite," "Chivalry in Carbon County," "The Squirrel," "IOU," "The Bone Doctor," "His Own Stuff," "Excess Baggage," "Nine Assists and Two Errors," "Minster Conley"). Also included are the previously uncollected stories "Mathewson, Incog." and "The Indian Sign."