Leslie Tryon.  Albert's Ballgame

As springtime comes to Pleasant Valley, everyone who is anyone, which is of course everyone, plays ball.

Barbara McGrath.  The Baseball Counting Book

Uses the numbers from one to twenty to introduce various aspects of the game of baseball.

Ken Mochizuki.  Baseball Saved Us

A Japanese American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an internment camp during World War II, and his ability to play helps him after the war is over.

Stan and Jan Berenstain.  Berenstain Bears Play Ball

Papa Bear is so intent on making Brother Bear into a baseball star that he does not even notice how well Sister Bear plays.

Alexander Stadler.  Beverly Billingsly Can't Catch

When Beverly and Oliver, who do well in school but not on the softball field, set out to become better players they get some pointers from their favorite librarian and spend a lot of time practicing.

Annie Auerback.  Big Game

Chicken Little steps up to the plate to show everyone what he's really made of.

H. A. Rey.  Curious George Plays Baseball

Curious George's natural inclination to find out more about everything leads him to interfere with a baseball game.

Susan Middleton Elya.  Eight Animals Play Ball

Eight animal friends play baseball in the park.

Mark Teague.  Field Beyond the Outfield

When Ludlow begins to play baseball to help combat his fear of night monsters, he is placed so far out in the outfield that he becomes involved with an adjacent game in which a most astonishing thing happens.

Jim Latimer.  Fox Under First Base

A baseball-stealing fox makes reparation and is duly rewarded.

Alexandra Day.  Frank and Ernest Play Ball

With the help of a baseball dictionary so they can learn the necessary language, an elephant and a bear take over the management of a baseball team.

Deborah Hopkinson.  Girl Wonder

In the early 1900s, Alta Weiss, a young woman who knows from an early age that she loves baseball, finds a way to show that she can play, even though she is a girl.

Robert Burleigh.  Home Run:  The Story of Babe Ruth

A poetic account of the legendary Babe Ruth as he prepares to make a home run.

John Stadler.  Hooray for Snail!

Slow Snail hits the ball so hard during a baseball game that it flies to the moon and back. Will Snail have time to slide in for a home run?

Angela Johnson.  Just Like Josh Gibson

A young girl's grandmother tells her of her love for baseball and the day they let her play in the game even though she was a girl.

Rachel Isadora.  Luke Goes to Bat

Luke is not very good at baseball, but his grandmother and sports star Jackie Robinson encourage him to keep trying.

Jane Yolen.  Moon Ball

Danny always strikes out, but in a dream he plays baseball with the moon and stars and finds it an eminently satisfying experience.

Robert Kraus.  Mort the Sport

Mort's attempts to excel at playing both baseball and the violin make him so confused that he decides to take up chess instead.

Emily Arnold McCully.  Mouse Practice

Monk the little mouse learns from his parents that practice is the way to succeed--whether it is in playing baseball or in playing music.

Shana Corey.  Players in Pigtails

Katie Casey, a fictional character, helps start the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which gave women the opportunity to play professional baseball while America was involved in World War II.

Willy Welch.  Playing Right Field

Although he is always chosen last and sent to play in right field, a young boy discovers the importance of that position.

Patricia Reilly Giff.  Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat

Although he can't hit or catch, Ronald Morgan loves to play baseball.

Phil Bildner.  Shoeless Joe and Black Betsy

Shoeless Joe Jackson, said by some to be the greatest baseball player ever, goes into a hitting slump just before he is to start his minor league career, so he asks his friend to make him a special bat to help him hit.

Maryann Kovalski.  Take Me Out to the Ball Game

The lyrics of the familiar song, with illustrations showing two baseball-mad girls enjoying a ball game with their grandmother.

Jon Buller.  20,000 Baseball Cards Under the Sea

Roger's friend Kenneth uses an unusual sea vehicle of his own design to take them to an underwater cave, where a cache of old loot gathered by the mermaids turns out to contain a lot of very valuable old baseball cards.

Kathryn Cristaldi.  Baseball Ballerina

A baseball-loving girl worries that the ballet class her mother forces her to take will ruin her reputation with the other members of her baseball team.

Annabelle Prager.  Baseball Birthday Party

Billy decides to have a party to show the other kids that he can play baseball, but his young helper's mistake almost spoils the plan.

Jon Buller.  Baseball Camp on the Planet of the Eyeballs

On his way to baseball camp, a young boy is zapped to the Planet of the Eyeballs, where he teaches the inhabitants to play ball.

Sydnie Meltzer Kleinhenz.  Bats in My Attic

When a group of friends gather to play baseball in the backyard, they go to the attic to get the bats and find they are black, furry, and alive.

Stan and Jan Berenstain.  Berenstain Bears Play T-Ball

When Brother and Sister Bear help teach some younger cubs how to play T-ball, they learn a lesson in patience.

Jennifer E. Kramer.  Good Luck, Charlie

Charlie tries to use lucky charms to win a baseball game, but all he really needs is his lucky pitching arm.

Emily Arnold McCully.  Grandmas at Bat

Pip's two grandmothers, who cannot agree on anything, take over coaching her baseball team and create chaos.

Leonard P. Kessler.  Here Comes the Strikeout

Bobby changes from an "easy out" to a game-winning hitter with the help of a friend and a lot of hard work.

Bill Cosby.  Hooray for the Dandelion Warriors

Little Bill and his teammates are excited to begin baseball practice, but they cannot agree on the team name.

Judy Katschke.  It's a Home Run, Charlie Brown

Charlie Brown is the manager of the losingest baseball team in Little League.

Stephen Krensky.  Lionel and His Friends

Lionel and his friends have dinner, trade sandwiches at school, eavesdrop on Louise and Emily, and play baseball.

Lisa Papademetriou.  Lucky Me

Ted is embarrassed by his unusual grandmother but when she takes him to a ballgame and helps him catch a home run ball, he decides she's pretty cool after all.

Marjorie Weinman Sharmat.  Nate the Great and the Stolen Base

Nate the Great investigates the mysterious disappearance of the purple plastic octopus that his baseball team uses for second base.

Leonard P. Kessler.  Old Turtle's Baseball Stories

While gathered around the wood stove in winter, Old Turtle tells his friends unbelievable baseball stories of Cleo Octopus, Melvin Moose, Clara Kangaroo, and Randy Squirrel.

Paul Sharp.  Paul the Pitcher

Rhymed text describes the different things Paul enjoys when he throws a ball. Includes word list.

Peggy Parish.  Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia

Amelia Bedelia, who knows very little about baseball, stands in for a sick player during a game.

David Adler.  Young Cam Jansen and the Baseball Mystery

When a baseball game is stopped because of a lost ball, Cam uses her photographic memory to find the ball.

Stephen Manes.  Almost Perfect Game

As he and his grandmother keep score at the last game of the season for the local minor league team, Jake and his older brother begin to wonder if Jake's scorecard can control the outcome of the game.

Marc Tolon Brown.  Arthur Makes the Team

Arthur worries that he won't be able to play little league baseball as well as all his friends and faces lots of teasing until someone discovers teamwork.

David A. Adler.  The Babe & I

While helping his family make ends meet during the Depression by selling newspapers, a boy meets Babe Ruth.

Joanna Hurwitz.  Baseball Fever

Ten-year-old Ezra tries to convince his scholarly father that his baseball fever is not wasting his mind.

Virginia Euwer Wolff.  Bat 6

In small town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one 6th grade girls recount the story of an annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the surface.

Robert Kimmel Smith.  Bobby Baseball

Ten-year-old Bobby is passionate about baseball and convinced that he is a great player. The only problem is to get a chance to prove his skill, especially to his father.

John H. Ritter.  Boy Who Saved Baseball

The fate of a small California town rests on the outcome of one baseball game, and Tom Gallagher hopes to lead his team to victory with the secrets of the now disgraced player, Dante Del Gato.

Timothy Tocher.  Chief Sunrise, John McGraw and Me

In 1919, fifteen-year-old Hank escapes an abusive father and goes looking for a chance to become a baseball player, accompanied by a man who calls himself Chief Sunrise and claims to be a full-blooded Seminole.

Myron Uhlberg.  Dad, Jackie and Me

In Brooklyn, New York, in 1947, a boy learns about discrimination and tolerance as he and his deaf father share their enthusiasm over baseball and the Dodgers' first baseman, Jackie Robinson.

Doreen Rappaport.  Dirt on Their Skirts

Margaret experiences the excitement of watching the 1946 championship game of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League as it goes into extra innings.

Matt Christopher.  Dog That Pitched a No Hitter

Mike's telepathic dog Harry is able to send him secret signals about the opposing players on the baseball field, but Mike's weak pitching arm requires them to find another plan to save the game.

Alfred Slote.  Finding Buck McHenry

Eleven-year-old Jason, believing the school custodian Mack Henry to be Buck McHenry, a famous pitcher from the old Negro League, tries to enlist him as a coach for his Little League team by revealing his identity to the world.

David Patneaude.  Haunting at Home Plate

After they hear stories about their baseball field being haunted by the ghost of a boy who died there many years ago, twelve-year-old Nelson and his teammates start finding mysterious messages written in the dirt.

Suzy Kline.  Herbie Jones and the Monster Ball

Strike-out king, Herbie Jones, feels that the summer is ruined when his uncle arrives to coach a baseball team and asks Herbie to join up.

Dan Gutman.  Honus and Me

Joey, who loves baseball but is not very good at it, finds a valuable 1909 Honus Wagner card and travels back in time to meet Honus.

Bette Lord.  In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson

In 1947, a Chinese child comes to Brooklyn where she becomes Americanized at school, in her apartment building, and by her love for baseball.

Walter Dean Myers.  The Journal of Biddy Owens

Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.

Valerie Tripp.  Kit's Home Run

In 1933 Cincinnati, Kit is an enthusiastic baseball player whose home run slide has surprising consequences. Includes historical notes on major league baseball and the Cincinnati Reds in the 1930s and provides ideas for decorating a baseball cap.

Marilyn Sachs.  Matt's Mitt & Fleet-Footed Florence

In the first of these two baseball stories, the mitt given at Matt's birth by his errant uncle possesses unusual qualities which shape his life. In the sequel, the fleet-footed star of the North Dakota Beavers meets her match when she encounters Yankee catcher, Fabulous Frankie.

Walter Dean Myers.  Mop, Moondance, and the Nagasaki Knights

After T.J. and his younger brother are adopted, the biggest problems they face are winning an international baseball tournament, held in their New Jersey hometown, and helping a homeless teammate.

Debbie Dadey.  Mummies Don't Coach Softball

Part of the Bailey School Kids series.

Gertrude Chandler Warner.  Mystery at the Ballpark

The Alden children uncover a plot to sabotage the Greenfield Bears baseball team.

Patrick Jennings.  Out Standing in My Field

Although fifth-grader Ty Cutter is named after baseball great Ty Cobb, he is the worst player on the Brewer's team--which happens to be coached by his overly-competitive father.

Matt Christopher.  Return of the Home Run Kid

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.

Jane Zirpoli.  Roots in the Outfield

Criticized by his baseball teammates for being afraid of the ball, Josh leaves his mother in San Francisco to live with his father, stepmother, and stepsister in Milwaukee where he becomes entangled in a mystery involving his favorite professional player.

Judi Peers.  Sayonara Sharks

Ben and Kate are excited about the school trip to Japan, but Matt is not sure he wants to go. Japan sounds too different to him and he's also afraid that he'll miss the tryouts for the Sharks softball team.

Kathy Mackel.  Season of Comebacks

Ten-year-old Molly competes for the attention of her father who seems to be only interested in cultivating the talent of Molly's older sister Allie, a star softball pitcher.

Barbara Park.  Skinnybones

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.

Dori Hillestad Butler.  Sliding Into Home

When thirteen-year-old Joelle, a star baseball player, moves to a new town where the only option for girls is softball, she starts an all-girl baseball league against the wishes of her school coaches and others in the town.

Paul Robert Walker.  Slugger's Club:  a Sports Mystery

When baseball equipment starts disappearing from B.J.'s Little League team, he and his friends form the Sluggers Club to investigate the crime.

Maria Testa.  Some Kind of Pride

Named after the greatest baseball player of all time, eleven-year-old Ruth dreams of becoming a major league baseball player until she overhears her father lamenting the fact that she is a girl.

Mary Stolz.  Stealing Home

Though they still listen to baseball and go fishing, Thomas and his grandfather find life in their small house in Florida changed when Great-aunt Linzy comes to stay.

Amy Goldman Koss.  Strike Two

Gwen's hope of spending the summer playing softball and hanging out with her cousin Jess is ruined when her father and her uncle land on opposite sides of the local newspaper strike.

Carol Gorman.  Stumptown Kid

In a small Iowa town in 1952, eleven-year-old Charlie Nebraska, whose father died in the Korean War, learns the meanings of both racism and heroism when he befriends a black man who had played baseball in the Negro Leagues.

Tracey West.  Three Strikes and You're a Monster

When a boy buys a baseball bat from Sebastian Cream's Junk Shop, he hopes to become a good enough batter to make the school baseball team, but soon strange things begin happening to him.

Bruce Brooks.  Throwing Smoke

When his teammates on the Breadhurst Newts baseball team continue their losing ways, Whiz uses an unusual printing press to create several star players in hopes of winning a game.

Gordon Korman.  Toilet Paper Tigers

When his Little League team gets a coach who knows nothing about baseball, seventh grader Corey is dismayed to see the team taken over by the coach's pushy twelve-year-old granddaughter.

Ron Roy.  Unwilling Umpire

When the umpire at the baseball game fundraiser is accused of stealing a collection of autographed baseballs, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose try to prove his innocence.

Donald Hall.  When Willard Met Babe Ruth

A boy meets the young Babe Ruth and along with his family follows the Babe's long and illustrious career.

Fred Bowen.  Winners Takes All

When Kyle fakes a catch, his baseball team goes on to win the league championship but Kyle doesn't feel good about winning by cheating. Includes a section on the sportsmanship of Christy Mathewson, a pitcher who played professional baseball in the early 1900s.

Henry Winkler.  Zippity Zinger

The pressure is on when Hank Zipzer is chosen as pitcher for the softball team at Public School 87's annual Olympiad, the most anticipated day of the school year.

James Buckley, Jr.  1,001 Facts About Hitters

Presents information, including biographical profiles and career statistics, about some of the Major League Baseball's best hitters.

Jim Gigliotti.  1,001 Facts About Pitchers

Presents information, including biographical profiles and career statistics, about some of the major league baseball's best pitchers.

Kevin Briand.  The Baseball Book

A young player's guide to baseball.

Jerry Kasoff.  Baseball Just For Kids

Skills, strategies and stories to make you a better ball player.

James Buckley.  Baseball Top Ten

A compendium of more than 225 top ten lists about baseball, covering such topics as most career strikeouts, and highest percentage of Hall of Fame votes received.

Jonah Winter.  Beisbol!:  Latino Baseball Pioneers and Legends

Presents profiles of fourteen Latino baseball players who, from 1900 through the 1960s, were pioneers of the sport in their home countries and the United States.

Luke Friend & Don Zminda.  Best Book of Baseball Facts and

Stats

Ernest Lawrence.  Casey at the Bat

The popular narrative poem about a celebrated baseball player who strikes out at the crucial moment of a game.

Thomas S. Owens.  Collecting Baseball Cards

Provides practical advice on building a baseball card collection, covering such topics as trading cards, preserving them, and finding rookie cards, errors, and other specialities.

Bruce Adelson.  Composite Guide to Softball

Traces the history of softball, explains how the sport differs from baseball, and highlights notable players and games.

Lee Bennett Hopkins.  Extra Innings:  Baseball Poems

A collection of nineteen poems about baseball, including playing and watching the game.

Michael E. Goodman.  The History of the Houston Astros

Highlights the key personalities and memorable games in the history of the team that changed its name to the Astros in 1965 when it moved to the first indoor baseball stadium, the Astrodome.

Keltie Thomas.  How Baseball Works

Dennis Healy.  Illustrated Rules of Baseball

Baseball rules and terminology.

Gail Gibbons.  My Baseball Book

An introduction to baseball, describing the equipment, playing field, rules, players, and process of the game.

Laura Driscoll.  Negro Leagues

Presents a history of the Negro leagues, in the form of a school report written by a young girl after a visit to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Steven Krasner.  Play Ball Like the Hall of Famers

The inside scoop from 19 baseball greats.

Bill Gutman.  Softball for Boys and Girls

Describes the history and current teams, leagues, and championships of softball and provides instruction on how to play the game.

Lawrence S. Ritter.  Story of Baseball

Traces the history of baseball, which was first played in a form resembling the modern game in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1846, and first played by professional players in 1869.

Mark Gola.  Winning Softball for Girls

James Buckley.  World of Baseball

America's number one sport is quickly becoming a world favorite. Read about baseball's best international players!

James Buckley.  World Series Heroes

Provides a history of the World Series and profiles some of the most famous men who have competed in this century-old event.