Sports
- Cully Cully and the Bear
- Cully Cully's quest for a bearskin leads to a hilarious chase and several cases of mistaken identity. Ages 48. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Cal Ripken, Jr.: My Story
- In this adaptation of Ripken's autobiography, The Only Way I Know (1997), Ripken recounts events from his childhood, his years in the minors, and his career as a major league shortstop and third baseman for the Baltimore Orioles. Throughout, he comes across as a decent human being who appreciates the advantages he's had and wants to spend his life working hard every day at a job he enjoys--playing baseball.
- Leagues Apart: The Men and Times of the Negro Baseball Leagues
- At the start of his concise yet conversational chronicle, Ritter (The Glory of Their Times) bluntly explains the need for the Negro Leagues, founded in 1920: "Prejudiced team owners, encouraged by bigoted players, established racist rules that prevented black athletes from playing in the major leagues, regardless of their skills.
- Double Play at Short (Matt Christopher Sports Fiction)
- Grade 3-6?Danny Walker, 12, was adopted as an infant. When he notices something familiar about Tammy Aiken, a girl playing shortstop on a rival team, he studies her and even takes photos of her on the field. Finally, Danny's mother reveals that he has a twin sister who was adopted by another family, and that they have just moved back into a nearby town.
- A Whole New Ball Game: The Story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
- Macy offers an excellent introduction to one of the least explored areas of baseball history (recently popularized in the film A League of Their Own ). Established by Chicago Cubs owner and chewing-gum magnate Phil Wrigley in 1943 as an entertainment alternative to the war-depleted major leagues, the AAGPBL lasted until 1954--and until very recently was all but forgotten.
- Choosing Up Sides
- Set during Prohibition, Ritter's debut novel features a rural Kentucky dialect and a sympathetic hero "stuck smack between two worlds." Luke Bledsoe's conflicts with his father, a volatile fundamentalist preacher, take on a new dimension when the seventh-grade southpaw discovers his pitching power.
