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A contemporary American classic-a poignant and hilarious tale of baseball, hero worship, eccentric behavior, and unlikely friendship
Last Days of Summer is the story of Joey Margolis, neighborhood punching bag, growing up goofy and mostly fatherless in Brooklyn in the early 1940s. A boy looking for a hero, Joey decides to latch on to Charlie Banks, the all-star third basemen for the New York Giants. But Joey's chosen champion doesn't exactly welcome...
22) Hot number
Author
Series
Hot zone volume 2
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Micki Jordan is a tomboy as much at home on the playing field as in a locker room full of naked guys.
But the star publicist is looking to prove she's also an irresistible woman in order to get a second shot at professional baseball player and major league playboy, Damian Fuller.
Micki transforms herself into one hot number Damian can't help but notice and together they burn up the sheets and find themselves falling hard. Until Damian's past returns,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
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A vivid portrait of a young man's coming of age in an America that is almost gone, Waiting for Teddy Williams has been hailed by Ernest Hebert as "ranking with Huckleberry Finn in heart, spirit, and insight into the American character." The book begins on the eighth birthday of Ethan "E.A." Allen in the remote village of Kingdom Common, Vermont. Noted for its fervent, if unrequited, devotion to the Boston Red Sox, the village sports a replica of Fenway...
24) Hanging curve
Author
Series
Mickey Rawlings mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A Race To Stay Alive
1922. Another year, another team. Utility infielder Mickey Rawlings is now warming the pine for the St. Louis Browns, a team poised to go all the way. Rawlings should be overjoyed with the situation but the lack of playing time has him sneaking off to play incognito in the semi-pros. The competition is just as rough, though. In fact, some of the best players to ever throw a curveball or line up for a swing are his opponents....
Author
Series
Hot and hammered volume 1
Language
English
Description
A brand new romantic comedy from New York Times bestseller Tessa Bailey! Georgette Castle's family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven't taken her seriously since. Frankly, she's over it. Georgie loves planning children's birthday parties and making people laugh, just not at her own expense. She's determined to fix herself up into a Woman of the World... whatever that means....
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Series
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Avon Books
Pub. Date
℗♭2016
Language
English
Description
A sexy sports superstar discovers his body isn't the only thing that needs healing in this newest Stardust, Texas novel from New York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde.
With major league good looks and talent, Dallas Gunslingers relief pitcher Axel Richmond was living the good life. Even if the roar of the crowd could never distract him from the loss of his young son. But now with an injured shoulder and his career on the line, Axel is stuck recuperating...
27) Willowleaf Lane
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Series
Hope's Crossing volume 5
Language
English
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Candy shop owner Charlotte Caine doesn't trust the sweet demeanor of ex-flame Spencer Gregory when he rolls back into town, and she wonders if she can get past the hurt he caused her in high school in order to appreciate this remade man.
28) Screwball
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Could the curse of the Bambino be over? For too many miserable seasons, the Boston Red Sox have endured nothing but defeat and heartbreak.
Finally, there is hope in the sensational Ron Kane, a strapping rookie pitcher whose fastball scorches the radar gun at an ungodly 110 miles per hour. He can also handle the bat. And play the outfield. With Kane dazzling sellout crowds, the Red Sox are suddenly a juggernaut.
The only fly in the ointment is the...
Author
Series
Mickey Tussler novels volume 1
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In the late 1940s, the minor league Milwaukee Brewers are foundering yet again and manager Arthur Murphy is desperate. When he sees seventeen-year old Mickey Tussler throwing apples into a barrel, he knows he has found the next pitching phenom. But not everyone is so hopeful. Mickey's autism-a disorder still not truly understood even today-has alienated the boy from the world, and he is berated by other players and fans. Mickey faces immense trials...
Author
Series
Play by play novels volume 2
Publisher
Heat
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Win at any cost. That's always been the mantra of sports agent Liz Darnell. When she carries things too far and risks losing her number-one client, baseball pro Gavin Riley, Liz realizes that she'll have to work extra innings to win him back. It might not be too much of a stretch. She's had a thing for this player's moves since she first laid eyes on him, and by the looks of it, he wants her just as bad. Gavin's more than ready-especially when Liz...
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English
Description
"On her own since the age of eighteen, Cass Macklin dated brilliant, troubled Ben McGreavy..They partied their way through their twenties...Now Ben is dead, and Cass is broke, homeless, scared, and pregnant. Determined to have a healthy pregnancy and raise Ben's baby...Cass turns to the only person with the means to help her: Ben's brother Scott, third basemen for the Boston Red Sox, a man with a temper and problems of his own"--
32) Baseball buzz
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jackson loves baseball, but a bee in the outfield causes him to miss a fly ball, and the game is stopped until the bee finally departs.
Author
Series
Play by play novels volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Alicia Riley considers her job as a sports therapist for the St. Louis Rivers baseball team is a home run-until she becomes the primary therapist for star pitcher Garrett Scott. Out of the lineup with an injury, he's short-tempered, hard to handle, and every solid inch a man. Right now, the only demand he's making on Alicia is that she get him ready to pitch in time for opening day. Except the sexual chemistry between them is so charged, Alicia is...
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Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
After crashing a celebrity wedding in an attempt to reclaim her self-esteem after being jilted at the altar, Jodi Carlyle has a one-night stand with a stranger only to discover that he will be the best man at her sister's wedding.
Author
Series
Mickey Tussler novels volume 2
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Ideal for fans of sports novels and Wisconsin novels. Continues the story of Mickey Tussler that began with The Legend of Mickey Tussler (the basis for the TV movie A Mile in His Shoes) Follows the journey of the minor league Brewers.
It’s 1949, and eighteen-year-old pitching phenomenon Mickey Tussler is back. He and his team, the minor league Brewers, continue their journey in this sports novel. In spite of Mickey’s claim that he will never...
36) Hot property
Author
Series
Hot zone volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike/Chivers
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Just one short season ago, major league center fielder John Roper had it all: the looks-and personal life-of a sports hero and the public's adoration. But this hot property's lucky streak has run out. After a World Series disaster, fans diss him, shock jocks mock him and his dysfunctional family hassles him for money he really can't spare.
Now it's up to him, and Hot Zone publicist Amy Stone, to get his life back on track.
Amy finds it's easier...
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Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Silver King dreams of becoming a working cowboy. His mother, however, has pushed him to be a baseball player--and King certainly has the arm to be a star pitcher. When the National League forms a team in Kansas City in 1886, both mother and son get their wishes"--
Author
Series
Rescue me (Debbie Burns) volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When he falls in love with holistic pet therapist Tess Grasso, pro-baseball player Mason Redding, putting his partying ways behind him, must risk everything by revealing his true identity.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Tom Mason, former Chicago area high school teacher, recently made a public splash by marrying his long-term lover, former professional baseball player Scott Carpenter. After the hoopla surrounding Scott's public coming out and, of course, the marriage, the couple are in dire need of a quiet vacation - somewhere far from the fans, the paparazzi and the general noise of Chicago.
Escaping to the privately-held Aegean island of Korkasi - a resort with...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A series of three bombs destroy a local health clinic, killing many and injuring many others including high school teacher and clinic volunteer Tom Mason. While Tom is hospitalized, his lover, professional baseball player Scott Carpenter, begins to believe that Tom may have been the intended victim of the bombing, the third bomb was wired to Tom's truck and Scott is receiving threatening letters saying that he's next. With a long suspect list and...