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BASEBALL – FICTION
Carter, Alden R. Bull catcher.
Pete and Jeff continue
their
friendship and love of baseball as they progress from ninth grade
through high
school in their small
Chabon, Michael. Summerland.
Ethan Feld, the worst
baseball
player in the history of the game, finds himself recruited by a
100-year-old
scout to help a band of fairies triumph over an ancient enemy.
Deuker, Carl. High
heat.
When sophomore Shane
Hunter's
father is arrested for money laundering at his Lexus dealership, the
star
pitcher's life of affluence and private school begins to fall apart.
______. Heart of a
champion.
While Seth struggles to
deal with
his father's death and accept his limitations as a ballplayer, Jimmy,
who
displays major league potential, seems bent on a path of
self-destruction.
______. Painting
the black.
When star athlete Josh
Daniels
moves in across the street, Remy Ward doesn't realize how much his life
will
change during his senior year at
Dygard, Thomas J. Infield
hit.
After transferring to a
new high
school during his junior year, Hal tries to make friends, gain a
starting
position on the baseball team, and hide the fact that his dad is a
famous
ex-major leaguer.
Fromm, Pete. How
all this
started.
Gaetz, Dayle. No
problem.
Curt, a teen blessed
with friends,
a summer job, and a promising future in baseball, puts everything at
risk when
he begins experimenting with drugs.
Garfield, Henry. Tartabull's
throw.
In 1967 an encounter
with a
mysterious young woman from
Johnston, Tim. Never
so green.
In
Kinsella, W. P. Magic
time.
Mike Houle's career as
a college
all-star baseball player is on the skids until his agent offers him a
second
chance in the Iowa Cornbelt League, but when Mike is lured to the town
of
Kinsella, W. P. Shoeless
Joe.
A dreamer builds a
baseball
diamond amid the Iowa cornfields and waits for the outstanding, but
dead,
baseball players of the past to show up for a very special game.
Koertge, Ronald. Shakespeare
bats cleanup.
When a
fourteen-year-old baseball
player catches mononucleosis, he discovers that keeping a journal and
experimenting with poetry not only helps fill the time, it also helps
him deal
with life, love, and loss.
Lewin, Michael Z. Cutting
loose.
A girl, who dresses
like a boy in
order to play professional baseball during the late nineteenth century,
tracks
the murderer of her best friend to
Lyga, Barry. Boy
toy.
After five years of
fighting his
way past flickers of memory about the teacher who molested him and the
incident
that brought the crime to light, eighteen-year-old Josh gets help in
coping
with his molestor's release from prison when he finally tells his best
friends
the whole truth.
Malamud, Bernard. Natural.
He's a natural athlete,
and he has
everything, the game he loves and the woman he thought he'd lost.
But
he's up against the computers, the seducers and the glory destroyers.
Murphy, Claire Rudolf. Free
radical.
In
Peck, Robert Newton. Extra
innings.
After a tragic airplane
crash that
claims the lives of most of his family, sixteen-year-old Tate goes to
live with
his wealthy great-grandfather and his adopted black great-aunt Vidalia.
Trueman, Terry. 7
days at the
hot corner.
Varsity baseball player
Scott
Latimer struggles with his own prejudices and those of others when his
best
friend reveals that he is gay.
Turner, Ann Warren. Hard
hit.
A rising high school
baseball star
faces his most difficult challenge when his father is diagnosed with
pancreatic
cancer.
Weaver, Will. Striking
out.
Since the death of his
older
brother, thirteen-year-old Bill Baggs has had a distant relationship
with his
father, but life on their farm in northern
Weaver, Will. Hard
ball : a
Billy Baggs novel.
A fourteen-year-old
Brian uses basketball
to block out memories of his girlfriend and her family who were gunned
down a
year ago, but the upcoming murder trial and a high school history
assignment
force him to face the past and decide how far he should go to see
justice
served. Includes facts about miscarriages of justice in American
history.
Averett, Edward. The
rhyming season.
A senior
basketball-player shoulders the hopes of a dying mill town and her
bereaved
family when she and an eccentric English-teacher/coach try to lead
their team
to state basketball history.
Bennett, James. Squared
circle.
Sonny, a university
freshman and star basketball player, finds that the pressures of
college life,
NCAA competition, and an unsettling relationship with his feminist
cousin bring
up painful memories that he must face before he can decide what is
important in
his life.
Bennett, James W. Blue Star
rapture.
While attending a
high-profile basketball camp, T.J. begins to re-think both his
motivations and
his actions in guiding his learning-disabled but athletically-gifted
friend
through the college recruitment process.
A black boy and an
emotionally troubled white boy in
Deuker, Carl. On the
Devil's court.
Struggling with his
feelings of inadequacy and his failure to make the basketball team in
his new
school, seventeen-year-old Joe Faust finds himself willing to trade his
soul
for one perfect season of basketball.
Dygard, Thomas. Outside
shooter.
A high school
basketball star's personality problems threaten not only his own career
but the
success of the whole team.
Dygard, Thomas J. The
rebounder.
Doug Fulton, coach of
the Hamilton High Panthers, is certain that transfer student Chris
Patton can
lead the team to a championship, but a tragic accident has made Chris
decide to
never play basketball again.
Jones, Jasmine. Coach carter.
Inspired by the
true-life story of high school basketball coach Ken Carter who benched
the
entire team for poor academic performance.
Klass, David. Danger zone.
A young basketball star
confronts a nightmare of racism.
Krech, Bob. Rebound.
Ray Wisniewski is a
Polish kid who's determined to make the Franklin High varsity
basketball team.
He's tried out two years in a row and been rejected, but he makes it on
his
third tryout for the new coach. Ray is the only white kid on the team
and he feels
like the target of prejudice. As time goes on, he learns that prejudice
comes
in many forms.
Lupica, Mike. Miracle on
After her mother's
death, twelve-year-old Molly learns that her father is a basketball
star for
the Boston Celtics.
Lupica, Mike. Summer ball.
Thirteen-year-old Danny
must prove himself all over again for a disapproving coach and against
new rivals
at a summer basketball camp.
Myers, Walter Dean. Hoops.
A teenage basketball
player from
Myers, Walter Dean. Outside
shot.
Recruited by a small
midwestern college to play basketball, a
Myers, Walter Dean. Slam!
Sixteen-year-old
"Slam" Harris is counting on his noteworthy basketball talents to get
him out of the inner city and give him a chance to succeed in life, but
his coach
sees things differently.
Nishiyama, Yuriko.
Peña, Matt de la. Ball
don't lie.
Seventeen-year-old
Sticky lives for basketball and plays at school and at the Lincoln Rec
Center
in Los Angeles but he is unaware of the many dangers--including his own
past--that threaten his dream of playing professionally.
Ripslinger, Jon. How I fell
in love & learned to shoot
free throws.
Seventeen-year-old
Danny Henderson, an indifferent basketball player, has his eye on Angel
McPherson, star of the girls' team in their
Rud, Jeff. In the paint.
Matt Hill struggles to
make the basketball team in his new school while keeping out of trouble.
Sitomer, Alan Lawrence.
The hoopster.
Andre Anderson is a
black teenager who loves to play basketball.
When he is viciously attacked, it calls his whole world
into question--even
his deadly jumpshot.
Sweeney, Joyce. Players.
Eighteen year old Corey
sees a threat to his dream of winning the basketball championship when
he
discovers that the new player on his team is a girl-stealing,
friend-framing, team-destroying
force of evil.
Trueman, Terry. Cruise
control.
A talented basketball
player struggles to deal with the helplessness and anger that come with
having
a brother rendered completely dysfunctional by severe cerebral palsy
and a father
who deserted the family.
Volponi, Paul. Black and
white.
Two star high school
basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice
system
differently after committing a crime together and getting caught.
Wallace, Rich. Playing
without the ball.
Feeling abandoned by
his parents, who have gone their separate ways and left him behind in a
small
Wallace, Rich. Dunk under
pressure.
Free throw specialist
Cornell "Dunk" Duncan joins the YMCA summer basketball league
all-star team, but after losing his confidence in an important game the
seventh-grader makes some decisions about becoming an all-around player.
Waltman, Kevin. Learning the
game.
When he and his
high-school basketball teammates steal from a fraternity house in their
small
Wilhelm, Doug. Falling.
Fifteen-year-old Matt’s
life has been turned upside-down, first when the brother he idolizes
turns to
drugs, then when a visit to a chat room leads him to a classmate,
Katie, who he
likes very much but cannot trust with his family secret.
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Follows Peekay, a white
British boy in South Africa during World War II, between the ages of
five and
eleven, as he survives an abusive boarding school and goes on to
succeed in
life and the boxing ring, with help from a chicken, a boxer, a pianist,
black
African prisoners, and many others.
Lipsyte, Robert.
Warrior angel.
Native American boxer
of the Moscondaga Nation, Sonny Bear must fight to retain his
heavyweight
championship title.
_______. The chief.
On the verge of having
a shot at the heavyweight boxing championship, nineteen-year-old Sonny
Bear
finds himself with conflicting loyalties when trouble erupts on his
reservation
over the construction of a new gambling casino.
_______. Contender.
Caught in the pressures
of
Coleman, Michael. On
the run.
When a persistent youth
offender is caught yet again, he is sentenced to community service as
the
partner to a blind runner.
Alienated at school and
troubled by his parents' separation, Kit loses himself in running,
until one
day an accident on the road catapults him into what seems to be a
parallel
universe.
Voigt, Cynthia. The
runner.
As a dedicated runner,
a teenage boy has always managed to distance himself from other people
until
the experience of coaching one of his teammates on the track team
gradually
helps him see the value of giving and receiving.
Wallace, Rich. One good
punch.
Eighteen-year-old
Michael Kerrigan, writer of obituaries for the Scranton Observer and
captain of
the track team, is ready for the most important season of his
life--until the
police find four joints in his school locker, and he is faced with a
choice that
could change everything.
Cheripko, Jan. Imitate
the tiger.
An alcoholic high
school football player faces the collapse of his world.
Coy, John. Crackback.
Miles barely recalls
when football was fun after being sidelined by a new coach, constantly
criticized by his father, and pressured by his best friend to take
performance-enhancing drugs.
Deuker, Carl. Gym
candy.
Groomed by his father
to be a star player, football is the only thing that has ever really
mattered
to Mick Johnson, who works hard for a spot on the varsity team his
freshman
year, then tries to hold onto his edge by using steroids, despite the
consequences to his health and social life.
Dygard, Thomas J.
Second stringer.
When Kevin replaces the
quarterback and football hero who suffers a knee injury, the second
stringer
needs to prove that he can do the job and is not just a substitute.
______ .
Running wild.
When Coach Wilson and
Officer Stowell encourage him to join the high school football team,
Pete no
longer believes that "nobody does anything for nothing."
______ .
Quarterback walk-on.
When the fourth-string
quarterback for a
Feinstein, John.
Cover-up.
Fledgling
fourteen-year-old sports reporters Susan Carol and Stevie investigate
suspicious activities at the Super Bowl after Stevie gets fired from
his
co-anchor job on a ground-breaking teen sports show.
Grisham, John.
Bleachers.
When his old coach
dies, high school football star Neely Crenshaw returns to his hometown
after
fifteen years, reunites with his former teammates, and struggles to
resolve his
mixed feelings about the man.
______. Playing
for pizza.
After losing an important game for his team, NFL backup quarterback
Rick Dockery is fired, but his agent finds him an opportunity to play
for the Panthers of Parma, and even though he has never been to Europe,
he moves to Italy hoping for a second chance.
Hautman, Pete. Rash.
In a future society
that has decided it would "rather be safe than free,"
sixteen-year-old Bo's anger control problems land him in a tundra jail
where he
survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial
intelligence
program named Bork.
Jenkins, A. M. Damage.
Seventeen-year-old
football hero Austin, trying to understand the inexplicable depression
that has
drained his interest in life, thinks that he has found relief in a girl
who
seems very special.
Korman, Gordon. No more
dead dogs.
Eighth-grade football
hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of
the
school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the
production
and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his
life as
well.
Lipsyte, Robert.
Raiders night.
Matt Rydeck, co-captain
of his high school football team, endures a traumatic season as he
witnesses
the rape of a rookie player by teammates and grapples with his own use
of
performance-enhancing drugs.
Lynch, Chris.
Inexcusable.
High school senior and
football player Keir sets out to enjoy himself on graduation night, but
when he
attempts to comfort a friend whose date has left her stranded, things
go
terribly wrong.
Murdock, Catherine
Gilbert. Dairy queen.
________.
The off season.
High school junior D.J.
staggers under the weight of caring for her badly injured brother, her
responsibilities on the dairy farm, a changing relationship with her
friend
Brian, and her own athletic aspirations.
Tharp, Tim. Knights of
the hill country.
In his senior year,
high school star linebacker Hampton Greene finally begins to think for
himself
and discovers that he might be interested in more than just football.
Walters, Eric. Juice.
Moose must decide if he
should risk taking steroids to become a big star on the football team.
Wallens, Scott.
Betrayed.
Reed has promised
himself that he will always look out for his brother, T.J. But then the
coach
calls and offer's Reed the starting quarterback spot, a spot T.J. has
dreamed
about.
Bloor, Edward.
Tangerine.
Paul, who lives in the
shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play
soccer
despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident
that
damaged his eyesight.
Esckilsen, Erik E.
Offsides.
Tom Gray, a Mohawk
Indian and star soccer player, moves to a new high school and refuses
to play
for the Warriors with their insulting mascot.
Klass, David. Home of
the Braves.
Eighteen-year-old Joe,
captain of the soccer team, is dismayed when a hotshot player shows up
from
Swanson, Julie A. Going
for the record.
Seventeen-year-old
Leah's quest to make the national soccer team does not seem so
important when
she learns that her father has cancer and may only have months to live.
Wallace, Rich. Shots on
goal.
While pursuing his goal
of helping his soccer team win the championship in the district
playoffs,
fifteen-year-old Bones tries to deal with his resentment of his best
friend, on
whose girlfriend he has a crush.
Weyn, Suzanne and
Guggenheim,
Sixteen-year-old Gracie
Bowen gains the support of her family, community, and finally the
school board
when she decides to honor the memory of her brother who was killed by a
drunk
driver, by taking his place on the all-boys soccer team at her
Feinstein, John.
Vanishing act: mystery at the
U.S. Open.
Sports reporters Susan
Carol and Stevie reunite at the U.S.Open tennis championships where
they
investigate the mysterious disappearance of a top Russian player.
Horowitz, Anthony.
Skeleton key.
Reluctant teenage-spy
Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the
Benjamin, E. M. J.
Takedown.
When Jake begins having
unexplained seizures, he is unable to handle the changes that occur in
his
personal life.
Connelly, Neil. St.
Michael's scales.
Keegan Flannery,
fleeing responsibility for his twin brother's death and his mother's
mental
illness, believes he must atone by committing suicide before his
sixteenth
birthday, but he gains new insight when he hoins his school's wrestling
team.
Davis, Terry. Vision
quest: a novel.
Eighteen-year-old
Louden Swain pursues many interests as he strives to achieve maturity.
Hayes, Daniel. No
effect.
An eighth grader joins
the wrestling team and develops a crush on his science teacher.
Martino, Alfred C.
Pinned.
Dealing with family
problems, girls, and their own competitive natures, high school seniors
Ivan
Korske and Bobby Zane face each other in the final match of the New
Jersey State
Wrestling Championship.
Sweeney, Joyce.
Headlock.
High school senior Kyle
is determined to become a professional wrestler but his dream is
threatened by
a loved one's illness and the dramatic reappearance of a long-absent
relative.
Wallace, Rich.
Wrestling Sturbridge.
Stuck in a small town
where no one ever leaves and relegated by his wrestling coach to sit on
the
bench while his best friend becomes state champion, Ben decides he
can't let
his last high school wrestling season slip by without challenging his
friend
and the future.
NONFICTION - SPORTS
306.4 CUR
Currie, Stephen. Issues in sports.
Explores the controversies about how closely the reality of sport matches the ideal and presents debates about what sport is, what it can be, and what it should be.
362.29 STE
Egendorf, Laura K. Steroids.
615 YES
Yesalis, Charles and Cowart, Virginia S. The steroids game.
Provides information about anabolic steroids, discussing what they are, how they work, and their effects on health and performance; considers prevention measures such as drug testing, laws, and avoidance programs; and describes some of the problems that have occurred as a result of steroid use by athletes.
Shannon, Joyce Brennfleck. Sports injuries information for teens.
Provides teen-specific information about sports injuries, discussing emergency treatment, describing sports injuries commonly suffered by teens, and discussing rehabilitation and physical therapy, prevention, sports nutrition, and safety.
Lessa, Christina. Women who win : stories of triumph in sport and in life.
Profiles twenty-two women who have used their courage and determination to succeed in the world of sports.
Smith, Lissa. Nike is a goddess : the history of women in sports.
A collection of thirteen narratives that profile the top female athletes in different sports, including Babe Didrickson Zaharias, Billie Jean King, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Sheryl Swoopes.
Powe-Allred, Alexandra and Powe, Michelle. The quiet storm : a celebration of women in sport.
Discusses the changing roles of women in sports, and includes stories from women athletes that describe the obstacles they have had to overcome in order to be accepted in the world of sports.
Egendorf, Laura K., ed. Sports and athletes : opposing viewpoints.
Marzilli, Alan. Amateur athletics.
Tomlinson, Joe and Leigh, Ed. Extreme sports : in search of the ultimate thrill.
Contains photographs and descriptions of a variety of extreme sports, including bungee jumping, mountain biking, snowboarding, and others; and provides information on clothing and equipment, safety, tricks and techniques, and venues.
Blumenthal, Karen. Let me play : the story of Title IX : the law that changed the future of girls in
Explores the history and circumstances surrounding the passing of the "Title IX" legislation in 1972 that allows girls to participate in sports. Focuses on the people who influenced the passing of this law and features sidebars offering profiles of major figures such as Billie Jean King, Donna de Varona, and Sally Ride. Includes a timeline, source notes, and references for further information.
McKissack, Patricia C. Black diamond : the story of the Negro Baseball Leagues.
A stirring history of the Negro Leagues, packed with photographs, anecdotes, a baseball history timeline and more.
The Roots of Western Civilization. Games and sports.
Describes the growth, development, and importance of games, sports, and recreation in Western Civilization, from ancient Greek Olympics and medieval jousts to eighteenth century leisure activities and modern day sporting events.
Rummel, Jack. Muhammad Ali.
Chronicles the life of the heavyweight boxing champion, from his early years to his draft resistance through his astounding boxing career, which established him as one of the greatest fighters of all time.
Buchanan, William J. Shining season: the true story of John Baker as told by William J. Buchanan.
An inspiring account of the young track star John Baker's tragic struggle against cancer. His story is a testament of faith, fortitude, and most of all, triumphant courage.
Beckham, David and Watt, Tom. Beckham : both feet on the ground.
Ditka, Mike and Pierson, Don. Ditka : an autobiography.
Recounts Ditka's life from his childhood in
Heywood, Leslie. Pretty good for a girl.
Leslie Heywood discusses how her athletic career almost killed her and offers suggestions on how to make athletics safer for women today than it was when she was younger.
Hirsch, James S. Hurricane : the miraculous journey of Rubin Carter.
Holmes, Larry and Berger, Phil. Larry Holmes : against the odds.
An autobiography of boxer Larry Holmes, tracing the path he followed from a difficult and impoverished childhood to heavyweight champion, a title he held from 1978 to 1985.
Karnazes, Dean. Ultramarathon man : confessions of an all-night runner.
Reisfeld, Randi. Kerrigan courage:
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