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1) Double play
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Joseph Burke is hired as bodyguard to a spoiled twenty-five year-old woman. This story intertwines with the story of baseball player, Jackie Robinson.
2) Calico Joe
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198 pages ; 22 cm
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Follows the divergent paths of a rookie hitter for the Chicago Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher.
4) Fireside
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412 pages ; 17 cm.
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Bo Crutcher, a professional baseball player, gets help from Kimberly van Dorn, a public relations expert, in dealing with both the media and his long-lost son, AJ. While spending the winter with Bo and AJ at Willow Lake, Kimberly begins to fall in love.
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In this installment of the USA Today bestselling series, Jessica Fletcher is visiting out-of-state friends when she finds out just how deadly the game of baseball can be. Visiting old friends Jack and Meg Duffy in Arizona, Jessica watches their foster son hit the winning run for the Mesa Rattlers in an AA league playoff game. She and the Duffys are thrilled at Ty Ramos' success, but team owner Harrison Bennett is not. His son Junior and Ty are bitter...
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512 pages ; 25 cm
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"At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big-league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended."--from publisher's description.
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244 pages ; 24 cm
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"In 1956 New Mexico, the Roswell Hondo All Stars are on their way to the Little League World Series, and fifth grader Joe Don and his widowed mother struggle to remain independent. When the teacher who inspires him to championship is arrested, Joe Don finds his own character tested"--Provided by publisher.
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x, 417 pages ; 21 cm
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Sarah remains deeply in love with her husband of ten years. Boone Walker, a professional baseball player, travels almost year-round while Sarah stays home and cares for their two children. Living apart most of the time makes life difficult, especially since Sarah often wonders whether Boone is sharing his bed with other women on the road. When Boone faces yet another career change, it adds more stress to an already turbulent marriage.
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306 pages ; 21 cm
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"You know when you're looking at someone and you can't help but smile at how oblivious they are to their own charm? That's what was happening to me, and it was making me feel happy. Euphoric. Something indescribable. It was like we already knew each other, like we had met in a previous life. Memories that didn't exist began exploding in my mind like fireworks."
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274 pages ; 22 cm
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Jason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions, stationed with the rest of his team in the punishingly hot Arizona desert for their annual spring training. Handsome, famous, and talented, Goodyear is nonetheless coming apart at the seams. And the coaches, writers, wives, girlfriends, petty criminals, and diehard fans following his every move are eager to find out why -- as they hide secrets of their own.
12) Heavy hitters
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Game changers volume 3
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Ben and his friends, the Core Four Plus One, are so excited to play in their town's All-Star Baseball league. But in the first game of the season Ben gets hit by a pitch. It's never happened to him before and it shakes him up. Another player on Ben's team, Justin, is acting really weirdly. Ben has known Justin for a while and they're friendly but he's not one of Ben's closest "boys." Justin is the team's best hitter but his behavior on and off the...
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"Can Marnie pitch for the boy's baseball team and field an unexpected crush without striking out at the game ... and in love?"--
Marnie fits in with the guys, playing sandlot baseball. It's what she loves best. An added perk: spending time with Cody, their high school's star pitcher and Marnie's best friend. He can be annoying, but he knows how to make her laugh and respects her skills on the field. When Cody gets nailed in the arm by a bone-fracturing...
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Professional baseball player Halo Todd doesn't like failure, but he can never turn down a challenge. Especially when there's a pretty woman involved. How else would he end up dressed as a rooster, helping a complete stranger compete on a wacky game show? Even when they're eliminated after the first round, Halo isn't about to lose the girl. Alyn is stunned when gorgeous, generous Halo whisks her off for a dream vacation to the beach--where she can't...
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Bromance volume club
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viii, 339 pages ; 22 cm.
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When his wife asks for a divorce, Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott finds help from an unlikely source: a secret romance book club made up of Nashville's top alpha men. With the help of their current read, a steamy Regency titled Courting the Countess, the guys coach Gavin on saving his marriage. But it'll take a lot more than flowery words and grand gestures for this hapless Romeo to find his inner hero and win back the trust of his wife.--...
16) No one like you
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"No one expects a curveball. For Rylan Cates, the gloriously sunny beachside town of Barefoot William may be home, but the pro baseball player needs to focus on spring training. Hiring a personal assistant to keep him and his four dogs organized for the next eight weeks is the first step--and Beth Avery is the perfect pinch hitter. Beth is still looking for her place in the world, and a couple months caring for Rylan's two dachshunds, his golden retriever,...
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Hannah Swensen mystery volume 29
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"The Tri-County Summer Solstice Celebration has come to town, and even among local artisans, athletes, and marching bands, Hannah attracts fans of her own while serving lip-smacking pink lemonade desserts. But the mood sours when a body turns up, leading revelers to wonder if the festivities mark both the longest day of the year and the deadliest. A retired professional MLB player has met a terrifying end and, considering the rumors swirling about...
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Relief pitcher/private investigator Johnny Adcock doesn't have an office; he has the bullpen. That's where he sits shelling sunflower seeds when in walks a femme-fatale blonde claiming to be a TV reporter. She is Tiff Tate, the highly-paid stylist responsible for half the looks in Major League Baseball, from Brian Wilson's beard to Big Papi's gold ropes. Tiff has a problem. Yonel Ruiz-the rookie phenom who infamously escaped from Cuba by surviving...
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After his unspectacular professional baseball career ends with a knee injury in Toledo, Ohio, Johnny Earl gets busted for selling cocaine. After serving seven years in prison, all he wants to do is return to his hometown of Steubenville, retrieve the drug money he stashed before he went to jail, and start a new life where no one has ever heard of Johnny Earl. However, before he can leave town with his money, Johnny is picked up for questioning in...
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246 pages ; 22 cm
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Oscar Indigo has never been good at baseball, so naturally he's nervous when he has to fill in for his team's injured All-Star, Lourdes. Luckily, Oscar has a mysterious gold watch that can stop time, which he uses to fake a game-winning home run. Now Oscar's the underdog hero of his town and even Lourdes wants to be his friend. But the universe is a precarious place, and you can't just steal time without any consequences. If Oscar doesn't find a way...
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