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1) Swindle
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Series
Language
English
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Description
After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker.
2) Jinxed!
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Chad is thrilled to be a batboy for the Pine City Porcupines, even though the team is not doing well, his fellow batboy is less than thrilled about the job, and his favorite player seems to be jinxed.
4) Zip it!
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Series
Language
English
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Description
When Pine City Porcupines' batboy Chad breaks an important unofficial rule of baseball: Do not talk to the starting pitcher when he has a perfect game going, the team may lose the game unless Chad can find a baseball card to help break the superstition.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
With his ability to travel through time using baseball cards and photographs, thirteen-year-old Joe and his mother go back to 1863 to ask Abner Doubleday whether he invented baseball, but instead find themselves in the middle of the Battle of Gettysburg.
11) Ghost Dog
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Artie Jensen gets help from his new pet Ghost Dog, an invisible pug, after someone steals the valuable baseball card his grandfather gave him.
12) The trading game
Author
Publisher
Lippincott
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
During a summer of baseball and baseball card trading, eleven-year-old Andy makes discoveries about his father, his grandfather, who played professional baseball, and himself.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Joe 'Stosh' Stoshack uses his power to time travel using baseball cards to go back to 1951, when Bobby Thomson hit the famous Shot Heard Round the World home run to win the National League pennant for the New York Giants"--
16) Batter up!
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
While on the disabled list and with his replacement hitting a winning streak, left-fielder Danny O'Brien wants one of batboy Chad's "magic" baseball cards to get back in the game.
18) You're out!
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Umpire Solomon Johnson is squeezing the strike zone and throws out both the Pine City Porcupines starting pitcher and manager "Grumps" Humphrey for arguing the call. Ballboy Chad tries to make peace by giving Solomon a rarely issued "umpire card," but the ump blows his top"--
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