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1) Bull Durham
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
The baseball season gets off to a rocky start when the Durham Bulls' new catcher "Crash" Davis punches out the cocky young pitcher, "Nuke" LaLoosh, he's just been hired to train. Matters get even more complicated when sexy Annie Savoy informs both men that each season she chooses one player to share her bed-- and Nuke and Crash are this year's "draft picks!"
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When the gruesome Frankenstone family moves in next door to Fred and Wilma, Fred is furious but Wilma insists they welcome their new neighbors. Can Frank Frankenstone turn Fred's views around? Fred's Final Fling: A mix-up in medical records causes Fred to think that he only has 24-hours to live. Dazed by the news, Fred ponders his end and embarks on a 24 -hour 'do-good' blitz.
4) We're a team
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Teamwork is the name of the game as Dora and friends maneuver through an obstacle course and then help Boots get his first hit in a baseball game.
6) Team Snoopy
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Batter up with Peanuts and celebrate their greatest sports moments in this all-new collection. For Charlie Brown, a new baseball season equals new hopes of winning. Unfortunately, one player just isn't measuring up, which makes the team decide that Lucy Must Be Traded, Charlie Brown. Then suit up for a triple-header of laughs with The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show. It's time to catch the winning spirit and share these tales with your teammates, since...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Grover Cleveland Alexander is the Hall of Fame pitcher whose baseball victories paralleled triumphs in his personal life. Suffering from double vision and fainting spells, Alexander sees his career bottom out. But, helped by his wife, he makes a successful return that reaches its peak in the 1926 Yankees/Cardinals World Series.
8) The fan
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A rabid San Francisco Giants fan targets a $40 million player and a game becomes a matter of life and death.
9) Henry & me
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It tells the courageous story of Jack, a brave young boy battling cancer. Stripped of his confidence and filled with self-doubt, hope seems lost until a mysterious stranger named Henry appears. With the touch of his pin, Henry sweeps Jack away to a magical world where illness no longer exists and New York Yankee legends play forever. The incredible journey brings Jack face to face with Babe Ruth, Thurman Munson, Lefty Gomez and Mickey Mantle.
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
JB Bernstein is a once-successful sports agent who may have to close his business. To save it, he comes up with an idea so radical it just might work. Setting off for Mumbai, JB stages a televised, nationwide competition called 'Million Dollar Arm' where two young finalists emerge as winners. JB brings them back to the US with a goal: get them signed as pitchers to a major league team. While the boys learn the game, they teach JB the meaning of teamwork...
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Picking up a year after Season 2 ends, the still-audacious Kenny goes to Myrtle Beach, SC, a tourist destination filled with fireworks stores, mini-golf and underage boozing and somehow resurrects his baseball career as the closer for the minor-league Myrtle Beach Mermen. Kenny struggles to come to terms with growing older, both in his personal life, and professionally.
12) Home run
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Baseball all-star Cory Brand knows what it takes to win in the big leagues. But off the field, with memories of his past haunting him, his life is spiraling out of control. With an unexpected second chance, Cory finds himself on a powerful journey of transformation and redemption. Based on thousands of true stories, Home Run is a powerful reminder that with God, it's never too late . . . freedom is possible." -- container
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
The California Angels are a struggling baseball team praying to win a pennant. Their luck changes as their biggest fan, 11-year-old Roger, begins giving the coach tips from a real live angel. The team not only climbs back into the pennant race, but learns to believe in themselves.
14) Everyone's hero
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
10-year-old baseball fan Yankee Irving is always the last one picked for sandlot baseball games. But when Babe Ruth's prized bat is stolen during the 1932 World Series, Yankee steps up to the plate to help retrieve it for his beloved idol. He embarks on a wild cross-country journey that teaches him the stuff of real heroes, and along the way, Yankee learns that importance of perseverance and the true meaning of friendship.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
An arrogant, burned-out, former major-league pitcher named Kenny Powers will take up residence in a small Mexican town. There, joined by his lackey and a new love interest, he'll fashion a comeback scenario that involves a local baseball team, the Charros, and its filthy-rich owner.
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Kenny Powers is a former Major League pitcher who used to have it all: fame, endorsements, and a lucrative contract. Now, after hard living has taken its toll on his fastball, Kenny finds himself crashing with his brother's family and teaching gym class at the same North Carolina middle school where he once attended. Wherever he goes, Kenny wreaks havoc with his boorish behavior, all while plotting his triumphant return to the big leagues.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone, the Flintstones and the Rubbles travel to fear-fraught Rockysylvania thanks to a big game show win. Flintstones Little Big League sees Fred and Barney facing off as opposing Little League coaches while Bamm-Bamm and Pebbles duel across the diamond.
19) The natural
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Roy Hobbs was a once-promising ballplayer on his way to stardom in the big leagues. He finds his dreams shattered when a mysterious woman and a silver bullet end his career prematurely. Sixteen years later, Hobbs, armed with his childhood bat "Wonderboy," finds himself coming back to baseball, joining the roster of the lowly New York Knights. Hobbs will have to overcome physical pain and the nefarious forces around him, to lead the Knights to a pennant....
Language
English
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Formats
Description
History was made in 1947, when Jackie Robinson broke the professional baseball race barrier to become the first African American MLB player of the modern era. 42 tells the life story of Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey.
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