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A little girl, lost in a forest along the Appalachian Trail, draws comfort from tuning her radio to Boston Red Sox broadcasts and following her hero, relief pitcher Tom Gordon. He becomes her key to surviving an unseen enemy leaving slaughtered animals and mangled trees in its wake.
2) Calico Joe
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In this novel, the careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it is what happens off the field that makes this story a classic.
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Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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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...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
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Author Jeff Passan examines the franchise lifeblood role of pitchers in Major League Baseball and the considerable vulnerability of pitching arms. Drawing on rare interviews with Daniel Hudson, Todd Coffey and Sandy Koufax this book provides insights into the impact of injuries on careers and teams.
6) The Closer
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Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Young readers ed. ; unabridged.
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"Mariano Rivera never dreamed of becoming a professional athlete. He didn't grow up collecting baseball cards, playing Little League, or cheering on his home team at the World Series. He had never heard of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, or Mickey Mantle. One day, that all changed. From a childhood playing pickup games in Panama to an epic career with the New York Yankees, Mariano's rise to greatness has been anything but ordinary. He's the guy...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
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The baseball is an amazing plaything. We can grip it and hold it so many different ways, and even the slightest calibration can turn an ordinary pitch into a weapon to thwart the greatest hitters in the world. Each pitch has its own history, evolving through the decades as the masters pass it down to the next generation. From the earliest days of the game, when Candy Cummings dreamed up the curveball while flinging clamshells on a Brooklyn beach,...
8) The pitcher
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Koehler Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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"A boy with a golden arm but no money for lessons. A mother who wants to give her son his dream before she dies. A broken down World Series pitcher who cannot go on after the death of his wife. These are the elements of The Pitcher. A story of a man at the end of his dream and a boy whose dream is to make his high school baseball team. In the tradition of The Natural and The Field of Dreams, this is a mythic story about how a man and a boy meet in...
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2014.
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"Soon to be a feature film starring John Hamm (releasing May 16, 2014), Million Dollar Arm is the memoir of a successful sports agent who went to India to run a televised pitching contest, teach the winners about baseball, and get them recruited by Major League Baseball--changing forever the lives of two young men and their families back home, as well as his own"--
12) No relief
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Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Seventh-grader Javon is the relief pitcher for his summer league baseball team and they are in the championship tournament--trouble is there is one player on the team they are playing that he cannot seem to get out.
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Blue Rider Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
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The Glass Castle meets Ball Four as Mets knuckleballer R.A. Dickey weaves searing honesty and baseball insight in this memoir about his unlikely journey to the big leagues. An English Lit major at the University of Tennessee, Dickey is as articulate and thoughtful as any professional athlete in any sport-and proves it page after page, as he provides fresh and honest insight into baseball and a career unlike any other. Fourteen years ago, Dickey was...
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Ballantine/Random
Pub. Date
c2012.
Edition
First edition.
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On an overcast September day in 1993, Jim Abbott took the mound at Yankee Stadium and threw one of the most dramatic no-hitters in major-league history. The game was the crowning achievement in an unlikely success story, unseen in the annals of professional sports. In Imperfect, the one-time big-league ace retraces his remarkable journey.
16) Top 10 pitchers
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Abdo & Daughters Pub
Pub. Date
c1997
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Profiles the lives and careers of Cy Young, Greg Maddux, Christy Mathewson, Whitey Ford, Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson, Jim Palmer, Catfish Hunter, Nolan Ryan, and Fernando Valenzuela.
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Major League Baseball Properties
Pub. Date
©2011
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Includes information on: Roy Halladay, Felix Hernandez, Tim Lincecum, Josh Johnson, Cliff Lee, Jon Lester, Mariano Rivera, Justin Verlander, CC Savathia, Jered Weaver, Clayton Kershaw, David Price, Ubaldo Jimenez, Adam Wainwright, Brian Wilson, Joakim Soria, Dan Haren, Zack Greinke, Matt Cain, Neftali Feliz, Stephen Strasburg, Chris Carpenter, Heath Bell, Aroldis Chapman, Jonathan Broxton.
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