Matt Christopher
Author
Series
Home run kid series volume 1
Language
English
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Description
A boy becomes a phenomenal baseball player one summer when a mysterious stranger resembling Babe Ruth befriends him.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Barry McGee likes being the Hit-Away Kid, the star of the Peach Street Mudders neighborhood baseball team. In fact, he likes it so much that he's willing to cheat-just once in a while-to help his game. He tells the umpire that he touched a base when he didn't even come close. He even picks up balls that he's dropped in the outfield-and swears the ball never left his glove. So far, Barry has been able to get away with cheating. But when a pitcher from...
10) Ice magic
Author
Language
English
Description
The twins' toy hockey game seems to be magic as it plays games identical to the real ones before they even happen.
11) Man out at first
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
After he gets hit by a fast-moving ball, Turtleneck Jones loses his confidence on the baseball diamond and sees his position at first base given to another player.
12) Out at second
Author
Language
English
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Description
When a key player on the Grizzlies' baseball team is hit on the head by a ball while practicing with his friends, they must decide whether to keep his injury a secret even after he starts behaving strangely.
Author
Series
Matt Christopher sports fiction volume 2
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Sylvester Coddmyer III is having a dismal baseball season until he takes advice from a mysterious ex-ballplayer named Cheeko and starts to play more aggressively.
15) Soccer hero
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"Rob Lasher is just an ordinary soccer player, good at the game, but not great. Then one afternoon, he saves his coach's life in front of all his teammates. Suddenly, he's the team's hero, when the squad manages to find a replacement coach, he's back on the field with his teammates again. So why isn't Rob happy?"--front inside flap.