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1) Heat
Author
Language
English
Description
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.
2) Skinnybones
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alex's active sense of humor helps him get along with the school braggart, make the most of his athletic talents, and simply get by in a hectic world.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Morris Buttermaker is an alcoholic pest removal worker and for a very short period of time a former professional baseball player, is recruited to coach and train a failing baseball team. All of these twelve-year-olds have been thrown out of the league. After losing every game they have played in so far, the kids force the coach to straighten up and teach them how to win before the season is over.
Author
Publisher
Golden ram press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
For Rowland Smart baseball was his love and passion. Suddenly he is uprooted from his comfortable surroundings in Woonsocket, RI and forced to move cross-country when his father is transferred. Being an outsider, baseball becomes the bridge from one coast to the next.
Author
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Play Ball! charts Little League's history from the earliest days and shows how, in many respects, its history parallels America's history: isolation in the beginning; rapid expansion; a civil war of sorts, followed by reconstruction; struggles over civil rights and gender equity; and foreign entanglements. A microcosm of American society, Little League reflects and is affected by cultural, political, and historical trends. Today, Little League is...
19) The benchwarmers
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Three guys spent their youth bearing the wrath of schoolyard bullies. They weren't tall, cool, and athletic, so they often got picked on by those who were. But when Gus convinces his two friends Richie and Clark to take some batting practice on a nearby Little League baseball field for old times sake, the three end up challenging a team of eleven-year-olds for the right to play on the field. Gus, often picked on because he was short, is nonetheless...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
©1978.
Language
English
Description
The third film in the series, the story contiunes as the Bad News Bears are spirited off to Tokyo by Marvin Lazar, a slick and sleazy con artist who sees in the team a perfect peg for a get-rich-quick scheme. The strikeout-prone Bears are pitted against a murderously skillful Japanese junior baseball team.