After researching Glenn Burke, the first major league baseball player to come out as gay, sixth-grader Silas Wade slowly comes out to his best friend Zoey, then his coach, with unexpected consequences.

My gym shorts burrow into my butt crack like a frightened groundhog. Don't you want to read a book that starts like that?? Lupe Wong is going to be the first female pitcher in the Major Leagues. She's also championed causes her whole young life. Some worthylike expanding the options for race on school tests beyond just a few bubbles. And some not so muchlike complaining to the BBC about the length between Doctor Who seasons. Lupe needs an A in all...

"Lenny Norbeck and his friends the Mikes set out to investigate the suspicious death of a young pitcher at a Phillies game"--

Jalen DeLuca can analyze and predict almost exactly what a pitcher is going to pitch, but without the statistics he has on the pro players, Jalen finds success to be extremely challenging, especially with all the extra drama of his mom coming back into his life.

"For more than one hundred years, the home run has been the most exciting play in baseball. Read about the longest, strangest, and most important home runs in Major League Baseball history"--

A behind-the-scenes look at the physics of baseball, how pitchers stay ahead of the game, how pros hit with power, how to prevent injuries, famous fields, and stories of great players old and new.

Publisher Annotation: An average kid with an above average talent for predicting baseball pitches tries to help his favorite player out of a slump in this entertaining novel from bestselling authors Tim Green and Derek Jeter.

Presents profiles of ten players, including Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle, Fred McGriff, Babe Ruth, and Roger Maris, whose home run percentages and "sluggingpercentages" were among the highest in baseball's history.

Publisher Annotation: Steve is King of the Bench. No brag. It?s just a fact. But this year, Steve and his friends are excited to try out for the Spiro T. Agnew Middle School baseball team. The only problem is, after watching another player get beaned by a fastball, Steve has developed a serious case of bean-o-phobia?the fear of getting hit by a pitch. If Steve ever wants to get off the bench and get in the game, he?s going to have to muster up some...