| 单词 | baseball |
| 例句 | “I worry all the time you will get hit by a taxi or a trolley car, and you go and get hit by a baseball.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He drew himself up, clutching the baseball in his hand, with Hazel supporting him. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Emily’s dad took off his baseball cap to wipe sweat off his brow and waved it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Hazel took the last thing out—the baseball—and set it on the ice, and then struck another match and put it to the backpack. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z As we got down into the baseball field part, though, we spotted a group of like five girls already there, sitting in a circle drinking cans of beer. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Unleashed by their insults, I was now free to criticize Martin’s clothing: the pleated denim shorts, the baseball cap, the T-shirt advertising a San Diego pizza restaurant. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She sat between her mother and father at the baseball stadium and she munched on Cracker Jack and watched the game. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z A few months after Glenn Burke started in center field in the opening game of the World Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers traded their five-tool talent to the Oakland Athletics, the worst team in baseball. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z “This is the neighbor dude who yelled at your dad when we hit the baseball into his window?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Felicia’s father didn’t return with a maid but he brought back a signed baseball for her sister, Lourdes, that made her jump in place with excitement. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Surprisingly, for a man involved in the rough-and-tumble world of professional baseball, Sunday was very religious. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He married her and made the baseball team his own, adding four more kids to make it an even twelve. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z There are also more baseball caps than I can imagine anyone needing, but I figure he’s not allowed to wear those to school. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z He lay down on his bed, held his baseball glove up to his face, and breathed in its leathery scent. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Every shelf in his office boasted pictures of his kids: building sand castles at the beach, swinging baseball bats, waving from sailboats. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z He was standing with some of the guys from the baseball team, strong, tan arms crossed so hard across his chest that the veins etched an imprint in me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z You may not have heard of the rangers of the 1600s before, but you may know about the Texas Rangers baseball team. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Then he picked up the baseball and struggled to his feet. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z It was the first thing he’d said since losing the baseball. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He was made of superheroes and castles and baseball, but sometimes he had trouble remembering that. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Before it was over, Park kicked one of the counterprotesters squarely in the head—a blow that sounded like a bat whacking a baseball. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He closes Natalie’s fingers around the baseball and fast walks away. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled and twisted bits off the trees, packing them in one hand while he picked them with the other, picking and gathering until he had a wad close to the size of a baseball. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z A librarian recommended some John R. Tunis books, mostly about baseball, which I liked. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The spleen turns into a single huge, hard blood clot the size of a baseball. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The photograph was of a dark, imposing man with radioactive green eyes wielding a baseball bat at Rodin’s lovely romantic sculpture The Kiss. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “Look, I know this isn’t easy for you. I know you’d rather not have any responsibilities. But the fact is, you do. If you play baseball on Alcatraz, you can play every day.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z You know, when I won the World Championship in 1972, the United States had an image of a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z One of my neighbors plays baseball, although she is a chicken. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Because no one would dare sideline the all-American star football and baseball player. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z When he got to the bottom of the steps, he threw the baseball down in disgust. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z “Silas just did a big report on the baseball player who invented the high five. What was his name again?” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z I race to my room to get my old glove for him, my new glove for me and my baseball. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I went to baseball games, to the grocery store, to a movie theater, even to the circus. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Or when I threw a baseball inside the house and broke the TV. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He sports a gray mustache and a backward baseball cap. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z And probably why she was one of Dad’s favorite people, even though she hated the Ramones and thought baseball was boring, while Dad lived for the Ramones and thought baseball was a religious institution. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z While most of the guys on the block played basketball, Mack, which was what everybody called him, played baseball. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe six months after the PetSmart trip, I made a giddy incognito run to the local Target, dressed in a baseball cap and sunglasses. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Like when Frankie spent his entire weekly allowance on that baseball instead of putting it toward our Calls to Cuba Fund. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z There are also high-five stickers held up by the same pushpin as my baseball schedule. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z “Are you doubting my baseball knowledge, Number Three?” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z He gripped the skewer like a baseball bat. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Once in the oven it put up a bubble like a baseball which grew tight and shiny and then collapsed with a hissing sound. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z European soccer, similarly, is organized like hockey and baseball—and the birth-date distributions in that sport are heavily skewed as well. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z One of the gang picked up a piece of ice the size of a baseball. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z Between math and biology and English, people traded jokes as gleefully as children with baseball cards, and every day the jokes became more explicit. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I hoped that he and his papi were catching baseballs and swimming in the ocean. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z JonPaul plays football, basketball and baseball and is roughly the size of a half-ton Chevy pickup, but he’s a total wuss about his health. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She does the same test and surprises me by saying, “I agree. Feels like a baseball.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z “You look just like him. Especially in them baseball clothes.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Every day, we left school for lunch but came back for last-period baseball practice. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z But Stanley's trial kept getting delayed because of baseball. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z In the living room, about half of the baseball team were taking drunken turns at playing an NFL video game on Blake’s parents’ wide-screen television. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The fall classic was typically a best-of-seven series, but because of enormous post-World War I interest, baseball’s commissioner had extended it to the best of nine. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Some were armed with bows, some with baseball bats, some with paintball guns. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The coach gripped his baseball bat, though for once he didn’t look anxious to swing. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A teenage boy in a baseball cap grins up at her nervously, and Felicia realizes she is standing naked in the window. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Though none of my neighbors knew it, baseball was something I could do. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I knew Alex was on the baseball team last year, so I headed for the fields behind the high school. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Who had their entire lives zipped up in bags stashed back at the baseball field. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “What is important in baseball about the number two hundred and sixteen?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Downstairs, I find the baseball game on TV while Dad puts away the stuff he bought, which turns out to be plums, chips, string cheese, and four packs of these yogurt drinks Mom likes. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Fred found a moon snail with a shell the size of a baseball. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “I thought you turned that ticket in to go play baseball,” he replied. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The largest man wielded a knife, while the other two carried baseball bats. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Palmer was about to throw his vote to baseball when suddenly the sunlight was briefly snipped, as if a page had been turned in front of a lightbulb. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z I escaped up to the press box where Evan and Ian worked the baseball scoreboard controls and explained to them where Miles was and how I planned on hiding with them for the entire game. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Kaira’s stepfather slid open a closet door and pulled out a baseball bat, holding it by fat end. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Manny stood on the sidewalk with a wooden baseball bat, waving it after them. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Occasionally, he’d split his mental gymnastics, leaving his imaginary board to swing a fantasy baseball bat and knock an invisible ball into the left-field stands of the Ebbets Field in his mind. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Gee, you know how to hit a baseball and you’re smart, too.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Wednesday, April 24,1935 Every day at school now I play baseball with Scout at lunch. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Overhearing a valet lamenting the lack of funds to create an alljockey baseball team, he jumped in. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She was the only one, outside my family, that I ever showed Allie's baseball mitt to, with all the poems written on it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Aboard the USS Arizona, an officer was about to suit up to play in the United States Fleet championship baseball game. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z I miss having Webb in the dugout when we’re at bat because he’d always talk baseball and baseball strategy, and I can talk baseball and baseball strategy for hours. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z You know how baseball players sometimes talk about games when the ball seemed to be coming at their bats in slow motion, looking like a gigantic freeze-frame cantaloupe just waiting to be pounded? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Lemoncello whipped off the beret and tugged on an Ohio State Buckeyes baseball cap. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z I thought they could throw you out of America like they throw you out of a baseball game. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He was forty, out of baseball, and, for all intents and purposes, out of life. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Immediately a ball of blood the size of a baseball formed in the monkey’s leg. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As I was growing up, I didn’t have any toys, but I did still own a baseball that Pete had given me a year earlier. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “He said that he gave you the signed baseball and a hundred dollars.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He grips a baseball bat in each hand. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z I don’t pay much attention to what he says, but when he walks back to his seat, I see he’s got a baseball glove under his desk. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Tracy—Mom—had a most awkward talk with me about the subject near the end of last baseball season, during our school's spring break. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The line I’m in is driving people toward the baseball field, but I can see it stopping before the entrance. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He got to his feet but stayed in a squat, like a baseball catcher. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Brian was wearing a T-shirt and a baseball cap with a picture of a fish on the front. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z “Another one of America’s favorite pastimes, besides baseball, and beating the brains out of—” “Chill,” I ordered. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I know all about how he was angry and frustrated and lonely and heartbroken when he was run out of baseball, but when he was playing, he must’ve always been so scared. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z He came up with the idea to invite some kids from the neighborhood to play a game of baseball with the kids from my school in a park near our house. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I would say at the present time she looked ready to bean somebody with a baseball bat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Bragging wasn’t ladylike, but it was part of the fun of baseball. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “I did my presentation on a gay guy, Zoey. A gay baseball player!” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z “We need the money, Moose. If I get students, I have to take them....Can’t you play baseball here?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A few dozen angry men chase us for a while, swinging pitchforks and baseball bats, although it’s mostly for the benefit of the tale they’ll get to tell at dinner tonight. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Monday after Monday dawns bright and clear like some kind of baseball spell. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s as if they’re a group of diehard Yankees fans at a baseball game. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Scattered over it were jungle gyms and tall swings, sandboxes, slides and a baseball diamond. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I sweep a last look across the piano, the guitar left on his pillow, the baseball posters, and my drawing of Kristi’s house. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z That was the only time Malik and I ever really hung out one-on-one outside of baseball. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z A week after he returned from Canada in August, Bobby bought a ticket to a night baseball game at Ebbets Field to see his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers play the Milwaukee Braves. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Eric, the bulky kid with the red baseball cap and lazy eye, still plays for Mercer. Mike, the taller one with the stupid pop-star haircut, finally graduated last year. He goes to college around here.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z He is wearing a baseball cap, and as he pushes ahead, looking very much like a determined leader, I realize I’m not worried about the flashlight. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “But unfortunately, baseball wasn’t ready for a gay ballplayer back then.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z They are thin-legged and are wearing uniforms—striped pants and tall baseball socks, blue and red jerseys. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z There he was, waiting for us, in his black leather duster and his sunglasses, an aluminum baseball bat propped on his shoulder. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “While you’re at it,” said Coach Hedge, “see if you can get the latest baseball scores. Italians don’t cover baseball worth beans.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z For three whole weeks of summer vacation they hadn’t let me play baseball or go fishing or anything. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He fiddled with the peak of his baseball cap. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He went with his father to a Titans baseball game, in the twilight semipro league. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z His eyes glittered darkly as he took in the scene - the Athena Parthenos harnessed to its team of pegasi, Nico with his Stygian sword drawn, Coach Hedge with his baseball bat. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Brian grabbed a baseball bat, and we maneuvered it, hissing and snapping, into a corner. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z After dessert, Al’s men lock the doors and Capone beats the traitors to death with a baseball bat. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z At the dinner table he forgot to remove the blue denim baseball cap he wore for yard work. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Then Mary Hudson stood up, and the two of them walked toward the baseball field. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z And because Axel knows about hope, and bravery, because he’s seen it in a tiny eaglet no bigger than Frank’s baseball cap, he asks, “Are you still sick?” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “You can hit a baseball so high that God can catch it without stooping. You don’t have to be fast at painting shutters.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He bounded up the steps, waving his baseball bat, and without hesitation goat-galloped to the stern and leaped over the rail with a gleeful “Ha-HA!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I slogged up the plowed driveway from the gym, past the snow-dusted baseball field and the ice hockey rink to get to the schoolhouse. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z “Curtis asked me to a baseball game this weekend. We had a great time. Shirley was there too and she just about fell off the bleachers when she saw I was there with a ninth-grader!” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z While he excelled at baseball, football, and track, the sport he enjoyed the most was tennis. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Directly across the field from him the wringmaster in his neon pink baseball cap was directing the wringers. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z We ran past other junior high schools and got jeered at by baseball players who warmed up with a couple of sprints and then shagged balls the rest of the afternoon. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “The best fielders are human baseball magnets,” I say in my Webb voice. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z The cutoff date for almost all nonschool baseball leagues in the United States is July 31, with the result that more major league players are born in August than in any other month. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He usually wore a baseball cap and no shirt. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z My dad said the baseball diamond is in this corner. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A baseball hat is on the side table. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Felicia’s calves feel like baseballs below her knees. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, Mrs. Lambert doesn’t like baseballs going into her yard.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Evan lay on his back in the dark, throwing the baseball up in a straight line and catching it in his bare hands. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z You were playing ball—I don’t know if it was basketball, baseball, or what—but you couldn’t come over until later. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z It just seemed like the farther we got from that baseball field the less I’d remember. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I’m wearing a baseball cap and eating an ice cream cone. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z He figured he’d made baseball history, and he wanted to stretch it out as long as he could. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think she was married to a baseball player.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He had been disappointed to find the miniature mechanical baseball game gone. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She liked baseball, but Jack had the statistics of every player memorized, and that just was not good conversation in her opinion. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I missed baseball, but I shook my head “No, not right now.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I'd played baseball with him and his brothers when I was in grade school. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Back around the end of the World War and in the 1920s, players would quit baseball to make more money. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s wearing a baseball cap with a fish on it. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It has been calculated that a baseball thrown at a hundred miles an hour will pick up 0.000000000002 grams of mass on its way to home plate. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He removed the baseball cap from his head and smoothed his hair and replaced the cap. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Forget baseball or swimming at the public pool, which was just an excuse to stare at the college girls who spent their summers guarding from those tall towers. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “If Mr. Big Bucks Ballard said he gave me the signed baseball and a hundred dollars, then he’s a liar. You got that?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Baseball weather is when you know baseball season has finally arrived,” I say in my Webb voice again. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z My dad gave me back my gloves and my baseball in the middle of February. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the rim of his baseball cap, Hedge’s eyes were bloodshot. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He pulled his filthy baseball cap farther down his face and grumbled. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z A great season by a baseball player in his prime will likely be followed by a less impressive season. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Roamer has taken over the kitchen with random other baseball players and football players. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The steering wheel was as big as a Hula-Hoop, and the shifter rose up from the floor like a baseball bat. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She had a La Cocina baseball cap on her head and a newspaper under her arm. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Malik races up and puts his baseball cap over my head, which is still in my pant leg. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Happy music sounds like the music they play at the beginning of baseball games, except sped up, and looped over and over and over again, until every lady in the church catches the spirit. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z “You do have a baseball somewhere under that cape, right?” the bus driver asked. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to play baseball anymore,” I say. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Three black strikebreakers watching a baseball game in a vacant lot caught the attention of a Packingtown mob and were quickly engulfed in a swirl of raging humanity. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z We mostly played other colored teams, but we were good enough that we drew some white fans who just liked to watch good baseball. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was either that or spend another night watching the Braves with Granddad, and I hate baseball.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Just when I thought all was lost, Velia and Delia burst through the barn doors wielding what could only be described as giant metal baseball bats. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z And after every one, whistles and shouts and even clapping for baseballs as foul as baseballs could ever be. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Still, the question of my baseball future is undecided. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z At night, I rubbed the stitching of Pete’s baseball and knew how bad it could be. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t even miss playing baseball in the back lot anymore. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He taught all of his children how to swim and play baseball, basketball, and any other sport he could get us involved in. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I bet by the time it’s baseball weather—all of us are going to be sitting on the bleachers watching your dad hit that ball out the park. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I noticed that her right foot was wrapped in tape, and I wondered if it had something to do with the baseball bat she was carrying. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “I think it’s a baseball,” I say, handing it to Jessica. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Besides Norm, some other people dropped by for “a minute” and then stayed: a baseball prospect with a broken wrist and some people that worked there—all kinds of people. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Usually, in this kind of fund, a lot of investors pool their money and perhaps buy a baseball team, or help to build a stadium. But it didn’t turn out that way.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z "You said it had to be descriptive. What the hell's the difference if it's about a baseball glove?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Lost and Found When I heard that my parents were getting divorced, the first thing I did was run to my room, grab my baseball bat, and pound all my Little League trophies into bits. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Nor were they at the baseball field or the basketball court or the tennis courts or the World War I cannon or the playground or the Boy Scout cabin or the picnic area. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z The discovery enterprise is no more universal than cricket or baseball or soccer; it is peculiar to the post-Columbus world, and it can only survive within a society which fosters competition. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Once, afterward, she warmed up a raspberry muffin for two minutes and turned it hard as a baseball. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Theirs was the Cadillac of clubhouses, sporting several parlors and a poolroom, a bounty of boxing gloves, baseball team jerseys, bats, and cleats, all paid for by their political patron, Frank Ragen. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z John Ivers is a polite, soft-spoken grandfather with a white baseball cap and a mustache. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He had on the farmer’s usual baseball cap, a yellow shirt, and overalls—the stripy blue kind worn by railroad workers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “She was telling me about those convict baseballs.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow Mr. Robinson’s struggle to be a member of the baseball team lit my freedom candle. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The townsmen, armed with rifles, baseball bats, and sticks are surging forward. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I was still in a fog as we all walked back onto the baseball field where we first met. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Monday, January 14,1935 The next Monday I’m in a really grumpy mood on account of it’s baseball day for everyone except me. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A woman stood over him, tossing a baseball into a glove. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z In fact, last time I went with Mama, he showed me a signed Satchel Paige baseball card—super old-school, and so original, he had it in a thick plastic sleeve. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z He was not the regular pastor; I recognized him as Wing, a boy who used to steal baseball cards with my brother Luke. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Remember how I took you to a baseball game? You were only four.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The wind tugged at my baseball cap and ballooned inside my hoodie as I raced down the streets of Stokum trying to outrun my life. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z But one day as we were on our way to the Park, the Chief pulled the bus over to a curb on Fifth Avenue in the Sixties, a good half mile past our baseball field. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you take up baseball or something, Matt?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Coach Hedge looked up from counting the change in his baseball cap. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z They shared one baseball cap between the two of them, changing it from head to head, one day to the next. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “That, too. I can do both. You can’t play baseball forever. I’m going to hit nine hundred home runs and get into the Hall of Fame.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Tats 2: “But actually again, he’s on the baseball team too. So that makes him only half-nerdy.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “Your dad had to pull some ‘old baseball buddy’ strings with the doctor—who is apparently his college teammate—to get permission for us to be in here in the first place. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Pictures, books, pots, pans, a set of four blue-and- white bowls she hadn’t needed but had bought for fun, a window fan, a baseball mitt, scarves. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Luke has longish, wavy blond hair that curls out from beneath his baseball cap, which is always worn backwards. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I lean my ear up against the radio, and I know perfectly well that it’s baseball I’m listening to, but for a while I could swear I’m hearing about Joe Louis. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I go back to filling in the seams of the baseball I’m doodling on the cover of my spiral. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z He had on a baseball hat that was way too big for his head. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Two baseball caps are stacked on top of the toque, and the fedora wobbles at the top as Ambrose laughs. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z When we got to the tree line beside the baseball field, they glanced around, then leapt over the metal gate in front of the access road and bolted down the dirt road. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “You got me there,” she replied, “but after you help her you turn right around and march back home. No baseball or any monkey business. Understand?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They even had the same baseball diamond and the same green scoreboard. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z One had a bat, another a baseball and the third had nothing but wore a pair of baseball pants. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I straightened my bright red baseball hat and cleared my throat. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z While other kids were swimming and playing baseball, de la O was out in the hot sun, weeding, picking beans, and pulling heavy sugar beets out of the ground. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z A baseball cap, even though mine is for a football team called the Miami Dolphins. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The crack of baseball bats could be heard in the distance. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z He asked me questions about school and baseball. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We slipped our hands in and pushed the new baseballs into their deep pockets. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “Now if I could just learn to pitch a baseball that straight. Lemme try again.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z The result, if viewed without sound, would seem to concern two cheerful, milkfed athletes discussing hockey or baseball—anything but murder and the roles, boastfully confessed, they had played in the deaths of seven people. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The sports Finny played officially—football, hockey, baseball, lacrosse—didn’t have school records. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “Compare your baton to a baseball bat, and you’ll know why we didn’t rush in there to break it up,” he said. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He heard a noise from one of the high meadows, like someone hitting a baseball. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw the eerie image of her business manager/stepfather split into two people, each holding a baseball bat high above his head. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z She discovered that Enoch loved baseball, and she saw the photo of Leanne Washington holding a pie when it was still hanging in the church reception hall, not hidden in a dark, dusty closet. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He was wearing a black and orange San Francisco Giants baseball cap. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “I did not think of that. My baseball player. I will see you again tomorrow, Reuven.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z She herself had zero patience for dudes who wore their baseball caps backward and always talked about “getting girls,” even though Maya was pretty sure that they had never even touched one. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I’m sure that by die time we reached the baseball field there was on every Comanche’s face a some-girls-just-don’t-know-when-to-go-home lode. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The trucker, wearing a welcoming smile, the standard-issue baseball hat and a plaid shirt, was pint-sized behind the wheel. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Then Coach Reed—who is the kind of person that Joe Pepitone would probably want to pound into the dirt with his baseball bat—looked at me again. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Okay,” Frank repeats, and like the mistake knocked him in the head, he takes off his baseball cap, holds it over his heart. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “My baseball player,” he said, trying to smile. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Clayton put on his baseball jacket, tucked his blues harp in the jacket’s deep pocket, and then sat by the window. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z A baseball game is playing on the TV. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “It’s okay. Your parents seem so cool. Mine would never let me run around the house swinging a baseball bat. And your mom’s hair! I love the purple.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Richard Parker opened his maw and the squealing rat disappeared into it like a baseball into a catcher s mitt. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z When it came to observing sports, Dad was a baseball fanatic, but when it came to playing, he loved to shoot hoops. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “No bus fare. And no baseball. How’re you going to make it in this world, kid?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Sally was married and Max was drowned and his father was at home watching baseball on national TV. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Moss experienced a jolt of excitement as they picked up the pace and crossed over the baseball field. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “We could figure out some kind of blitzkrieg baseball,” I said. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I have plenty of experience being the center of attention—on a soccer field, a basketball court, a baseball diamond. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z A little bingo is an old-school baseball term that means get a base hit. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z What had been the American Legion baseball field last week was this week a wonderland. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z He was also pitching for a semipro baseball team called Nippon. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The muscles in Annabelle’s legs and arms are hard as baseballs again. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Dragging Doodle behind her, Penny has scooted out of Mrs. V’s front door and is halfway down the ramp from her porch, shouting, “Bye-bye!” from under her green baseball cap. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The old man claimed he’d discovered the stopball one day down in the Texas League and that he was long gone from baseball when he perfected it. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. He does not wear a baseball cap with a fish on it.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I don’t care about anything except figuring out how I’m going to get Scout to change the baseball day. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I hear it all the time like that—at school, out shopping, online, at baseball—but this time it sounded different. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z A very long hitting streak in baseball is a particularly amazing sort of record, so unlikely as to seem virtually unachievable and almost immune to probabilistic prediction. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And doesn’t own a baseball cap with a fish on it? Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z When I come back you can tell me about the baseball.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z You have sat here and voted guilty with everyone else because there are some baseball tickets burning a hole in your pocket. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I like throwing a baseball back and forth, but not today. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z I take dancing lessons, which I love, and I also like to play baseball with the kids that live on our hill. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was still wearing his Giants sweatshirt, and he was using a baseball bat to break up his four-poster bed. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z He banged his baseball bat against a cabin door whenever he heard a noise, shouting at everyone to go to sleep, which made it impossible for anyone to go to sleep. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Like the baseball cap brought on a new idea, Frank takes a step back in Axel’s direction. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The baseball team was only three years old, and it wasn’t very good. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z He looks like a stupid kid, sitting there between his mom and dad with his baseball cap on. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I tried to wear a backward baseball cap to cover it up, but everyone knew of its existence. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z It traced a continuous path along the world’s seabeds, rather like the stitching on a baseball. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The baseball playoffs were on, and Dad had set them up with a feast of chips, salsa, and sodas. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z Olympic sprinters and weightlifters, cyclists in the Tour de France, football linemen and baseball sluggers: they have all been shown to swallow whatever pill or powder may give them an edge. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I carefully slip the last vial of toxin inside, next to the rolled-up baseball card I found on the wall in the seed vault. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z And even then it would sound more like a gentle baseball game and less like...this. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z He could hit a baseball farther and round the bases faster than anyone else at his school, and he could haul more cotton than two of his older brothers. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “You got enough for a baseball team,” he said. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you know Ben-Ben’s been learning about the physics of hitting a baseball?” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z He paced by me several times, tossing his big ball of clay from hand to hand like a baseball. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Other artwork showcased additional sports—a football player scoring a touchdown, a baseball player swinging a bat, and a sprinter handing off a baton to a teammate. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The story he told now was not about baseball. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In the morning, I went down to breakfast with a baseball cap on. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He learned enough English to order burgers and Mexican food and to talk about baseball and the weather with his housemates. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I gotta learn to hit the curve if I’m going to be a baseball player when I grow up.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The sun was directly in my eyes, so I put my hand up and under my baseball cap, like a salute, and I squinted in Declaration’s direction. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z So when he tried out for the baseball team at his new school, and one of the kids asked him what his name was, he said, “Call me Washington.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I was dressed like a spy, with dark sunglasses and a baseball hat. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Two shadow puppets: The boy on my baseball team and my girlfriend. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z When she turned around I asked, “Can I trade in this ticket and go play one game of baseball?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Smile, Melody!” called a guy with a baseball cap. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The White Sox were simply one of the greatest baseball teams ever assembled. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Mr. Foley and Ben were at baseball practice and there was a huge pot of chicken soup on the stove. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Just in passing, he was an Eagle Scout, an almost-All-America tackle of 1926, and it was known that he had been most cordially invited to try out for the New York Giants’ baseball team. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Lupita took off the baseball cap and let her braids fall down her back. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “Your baseball coach is in the kitchen with Mommy and Daddy,” she says, walking out. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z A handful of kids dressed up today, but most kids just wore normal clothes, or those don’t-actually-count costumes like baseball jerseys. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “She came to all my baseball games. She never missed. She wore this bright pink Windbreaker no matter the weather. I mean, this thing was blinding.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Billy is speaking before a capacity audience in a baseball park, which is covered by a geodesic dome. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Seems in Chicago everybody’s a baseball fan but me and Daddy. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z “Ten questions,” he said, “and a tiebreaker if we need one. The team with the most correct answers is the winning team. The prize this year: a baseball signed by...” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Jack removes his baseball cap with a flick of his wrist, using its bill to scratch the top of his head. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The baseball bat was turned perfectly smooth, the weight so solid and balanced that the world seemed to slow as he hefted it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It's a very realistic baseball field dugout, which surprises me. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Alex glanced around: some boys were hitting grounders with a tennis ball over on a nearby baseball diamond, but the rest of the park was empty; he couldn’t spot Rex anywhere. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z They broadcast baseball games, and Jackie Robinson is the hit of the day, the first black man in Major League Baseball. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Tracked him down to a dingy bar and under the sound of the baseball game on the TV I asked him about the anomaly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “You want my real age or my baseball age?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z This era saw baseball teams organized among inmates, as well as the groundbreaking establishment of an organization of inmate self-government, the Mutual Welfare League. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, baby, relax,” says a guy wearing a backward baseball cap. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The baseball was gone, consumed by the black waters. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Sometimes, when he was playing baseball with the older boys or rolling on the floor with Bob and Jane, he’d stop suddenly and say he guessed he had had enough for today. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Michael S. Egan, the founder of Alamo Rent- a-Car, built his own baseball field, complete with a batting cage and stands. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He used the end of the shotgun like a baseball bat. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Frank wasn’t sure why he felt that way, considering the coach’s love of baseball bats and roundhouse kicks, but he was sure. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They were paying me to distract Bigger with ping- pong, checkers, swimming, marbles, and baseball in order that he might not roam the streets and harm the valuable white property which adjoined the Black Belt. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z We got Gearhart to requisition some gloves and baseballs from battalion supply. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Their neighbors attack them with baseball bats and machetes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Now is no time to think of baseball, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked, slipping my baseball mitt on my right hand. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Knowing my PopPop—who I’m guessing was the kid in Great-Grandma Betsy’s belly—went on to play baseball and that Daddy followed in his footsteps makes me feel a tiny bit better. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Sweat trickled from under his baseball cap, cutting a path through crusted dirt on the side of his face. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He went to one of the baseball equipment bags and reached in, tunneled down to the bottom, and came up with another package, this one wrapped crudely in newspaper. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The bus driver closed the door, and Frankie made a beeline for the back, where a boy his age was tossing a baseball. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z “I for one have needed me some baseball weather.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z For walking in the bush, he wears a baseball cap, a black T-shirt, shorts, a curved African knife at his belt, and scorched, melted green sneakers— dried too many times over campfires. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My mind was whirling with thoughts of Mr. Robinson and his baseball and all those screaming people. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A baseball glove that is hard shiny leather. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Walt is wearing gray sweatpants, racquetball shoes, and a satin baseball jacket embroidered with the logo of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m opening in the morning, and then by the time you get home from baseball tomorrow night, I’m going to be dead to the world.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Then he began humming a commercial that he had heard during the baseball game on television last spring. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Willy just burbled if the questions were about butterflies or boats, but watch out if the question was about baseball. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z So we all went to the Annual Ballard Paper Mill Harvest-Time Employee Picnic, because my father wanted to win a baseball signed by Babe Ruth. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I was standing in the bathroom, getting ready for bed, and this little Gap Kids baseball hat was sitting on the ledge by the sink. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She took out three—no, not books of Shakespeare, like you might think—three brand-new baseballs, their covers as white as snow, their threads tight and ready for fingers to grip into a curve. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I stood there in my half muddy, flip-flopped feet, with my hair sticking out from under my baseball cap, and clutched her right back. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I figured kids on the baseball field would be calling me “Headless Turkey Boy” and when I ran the bases they’d tease me by making clucking noises. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A baseball team or a basketball team may very well triumph even if its star player is off his game. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z When his time with the navy was over, she hoped her father would drop anchor at their house and take her to baseball games. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z “Look, I’d just like to have one of those baseballs,” he says. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa pulled her away, but when they stopped, Hanako looked back to see several inmates being savagely beaten, one with a baseball bat, by guards. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Every time the ship tilted, a mismatched herd of sports equipment rolled across the floor—footballs, basketballs, baseballs, and for some reason, a single billiard ball. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z This meant that out of the whole weekend there was only Sunday afternoon left over for full baseball teams. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Consider two baseball players, say, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And so, while Eddie V. went off on the chemical taste of soda in plastic bottles, Dell checked out a website that sold bobble-head baseball player dolls at very affordable prices. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z There were four of them—all white, all wearing jeans and sweatshirts and baseball caps and bulletproof vests, and all carrying police-issue 9-millimeter semiautomatic handguns. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I couldn’t recite Shakespeare, but I could hit a baseball thrown at 75 to 85 mph. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He picked up his baseball cap, which jangled with coins. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z At the far end of the lawn, at the edge of the forest that surrounded the campus, were the baseball and football fields. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z One afternoon in February, just after Comanche baseball season had opened, I observed a new fixture in the Chiefs bus. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Even today, fine footballers and baseball players and runners and all other great sportsmen are much admired by the general public and advertisers use them to sell breakfast cereals. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “What?” he said, and he started coming around the counter with an aluminum baseball bat in his right hand. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The air shimmered, and she materialized, holding a Yankees baseball cap as if she’d just taken it off her head. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Just took Mama’s phone and called Daddy’s friend at the newspaper—a former college baseball teammate just like the doctor who stitched me up had been. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z “Did Spizz catch the Hells Angels and slaughter them with his baseball bat?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z An older white man in a polo shirt, jeans, and a baseball cap meets Supreme at the doorway with a handshake. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Maybe he would remember this—me walking my dog past him and his brother throwing a baseball back and forth—one day far into the future, after we were married. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z But in a nation where the organized crime that impending Prohibition had spawned had inserted itself into almost every area of American life, even baseball would not be spared. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He walked on the balls of his feet, almost in imitation of a boxer’s ring stance, and he was fanatically addicted to professional baseball. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Joe spit the cigarette butt from his lips and, swinging the crowbar like a baseball bat, expertly caught the butt, lining it across the yard at his antagonist, missing him only by inches. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead they look on ordinary roads where plastic wading pools and baseball bats are left out on the lawns. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Instead, it was divided into football, basketball, and baseball seasons. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z “Thanks, kid,” he says before setting the fedora on top of his baseball cap. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z They say Babe Ruth could see the seams on the baseball as it gunned toward him. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z And a couple days after that Jack had showed up on her doorstep and handed her his most prized possession, a baseball signed by Joe Mauer. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z There was a baseball game going on, husbands against wives. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z A group of men in baseball caps in line behind us had grumbled, “There should be a separate line for immigrants,” and “It’s not right Americans gotta wait longer because of these people.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Good at baseball, spelling, musical theater, drawing manga. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z She gave George a baseball cap and sunglasses to wear and took pictures until George couldn’t take it anymore and begged her to stop. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z The botched baseball game doesn't make a dent in Didu's mission. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He relaxes here—squatting against the wall—leaning back in a way that tilts his baseball cap with the D forward over his eyes. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z But no matter how hungry Allen was, he loved learning and school, and playing on the East Selma baseball team with Taylor. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “I’m like a human baseball magnet,” I say. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Volpe attended every one of his son’s high school baseball games. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Weighed down with guns and bullets, the women have their hair scraped back under headscarves or baseball caps; the men are mostly clean-shaven. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z A great football, track, and baseball star, Sam Ransom, traveled all the way from Minneapolis to sign up with the Eighth, and a track star, Binga Dismond, left his medical school studies to enlist. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Michael spread his hands, which were only slightly smaller than baseball mitts. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It seemed like just an ordinary thing, but it was a baseball, signed by Joe Mauer, and Jack had given it to her, and in that way it was magic. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “Isn’t there enough happening in the world that you shouldn’t have to go into the city for a baseball game?” he said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z They wore their baseball shirts and were on their way to the stadium at St. Andrews Playground. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The shelves were filled with everything from baseballs to car tires. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “No, he has an important meeting with the Chamber of Commerce scheduled for four thirty. He wouldn’t miss a Chamber of Commerce meeting for a baseball game.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z He pulled out a plaid shirt, two pairs of socks, and a new baseball. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z I must have had it written all over my face, because he grabbed the baseball cap off Tree’s head and pushed it over his own, eyes still on me. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I mean, if I had a baseball bat and bulldozer, maybe I could stop him. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t see a gun on his belt, but I spotted a baseball bat rolling around in the little cart he towed behind him. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I want to tell her that’s why the Dodgers traded him and why the A’s ran him out of baseball. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Two teenaged boys lived there, and their deck overflowed with soccer balls, baseball bats, tennis rackets, basketballs, hockey sticks, and apparatus from games Luke could only guess at. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Basketball, baseball, marbles—I could never get enough. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “I suppose I’ll be watching the papers to see how Pittsburgh is doing in baseball.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And things got even better when Deacon Hurd called the sides for the afternoon baseball game. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I sprinted to the Baker Sporting Emporium, the blue cape straight out behind me, the baseball in hand. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z He was as rigid as the mannequins at JCPenney, with a baseball cap on his head, dim sunglasses over his lifeless eyes, and his arms crossed awkwardly in front of him. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “You got enough for a baseball team,” he said. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a photo of a guy in a life vest and baseball cap with one hand on a diver’s back and a bag of rope in the other. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Garrett sidles up to me, holding the cake box, his blond hair winging out from under a baseball cap. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z When we got home, Grampa settled into his living room chair to read the Commonwealth while I fiddled with the radio looking for a baseball game. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z I understand the demanding schedule of minor league baseball, but I also realize that I might not get a second chance to sign if I go to college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The parking lot was crowded with pickup trucks, and inside it was busy with meaty people in baseball caps. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z These colors and shapes make it fun and easy to play with numbers, and I can find patterns in anything from the stock market to baseball games to the price of cereal. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “He was hit in the eye by a baseball,” Mr. Galanter said. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The boys looked at it briefly, quickly lost interest in it and started up a four-man baseball game of their own devising. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d been raised on the bedrock of football, basketball, and baseball, but it turned out that East Coast prep schoolers did more. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Maniac, in his turn, opened packages to find a pair of gloves, a box of butterscotch Krimpets, and a spanking, snow-white, never-ever-used baseball. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z By September and the opening of school I was deep into sports and became a baseball fanatic. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z No wonder Interview had him taking a baseball bat to Rodin’s The Kiss. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I went through a bunch of the toothbrushes they give you at the dentist, and three baseballs that Dad had caught at games, which he wrote the dates on. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “He has a baseball game at two o’clock,” I said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Frank, who isn’t in his baseball hat and dirty work clothes. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The policeman spent the afternoon watching baseball on television, but both Florida teams got creamed—the Devil Rays lost by five, the Marlins hy seven. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He stopped and adjusted his baseball cap, surveying the forest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not. It means a mediocre hitter in baseball.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z A bright spot in his social and physical development at Community Woodward occurred when he was chosen to be on the baseball team, and he began to emerge from his shell. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Two Negro teams were playing baseball and a crowd of spectators alternately booed and cheered their favorites. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “A boy should not lose his baseball jacket. We like baseball very much in Japan. There is no baseball during war. Everybody miss it.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z A number of things are kept there: stockpiles of metal used by the convicts to manufacture automobile license plates, lumber, old machinery, baseball paraphernalia—and also an unpainted wooden gallows that smells faintly of pine. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He strolled back and forth by the water wearing a white baseball cap pulled low over his thick hair. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He kept talking about how the designated hitter in baseball was bad and why basketball was a commercial success and what teams looked promising in college football. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z “Can I go outside and play with my baseball?” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Lupita was glad of Salvador’s baseball cap; it kept off some of the heat. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z He was wearing a baseball cap and a Santa Claus outfit. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked up at her, his hand firm around the baseball. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The newspapers were already revving up for the coming baseball season. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Fish acknowledges that the rules of baseball can be changed by a vote; he then goes on to argue that the facts of nature also change, and that funding agencies decide what they are. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He reached into the box and pulled out—I am not making this up—a perfect new white baseball. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z He reflected upon the pleasant afternoons they’d spent walking in Oldwood Park, discussing this thing or that—her mother, or the aged trees in the park, or baseball, or dogs. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “He was black and he did that. Most of us that go here are black. We’re expected to do something wrong,” explains Emarieay, who played on the football and baseball teams. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He made Allie go get his baseball mitt and then he asked him who was the best war poet, Rupert Brooke or Emily Dickinson. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Imagine a homecoming football game taking place on the same day as the lacrosse, soccer, baseball, tennis, and cross-country championships. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z And we almost got swept up into a White Sox game before Mom came to her senses and remembered she didn’t even like baseball. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z I recently signed a letter of intent to play baseball at a prestigious college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z A baseball cap and a big camera hanging in front of his chest—this was one of his favorite disguises. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Coach Hedge had a habit of jumping into the gangway with his baseball bat if he thought attackers were on board. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In my domain, I have a tire swing, a baseball, a tiny plastic pool filled with dirty water, and even an old TV. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z “The baseball thing was an accident,” I say. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He arranged his baseball glove and lowered his head. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The general direction of the tracks seemed to be taking them to a place they knew well from so many cool football, basketball, and baseball games. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z One time, it happened in the boys' locker room at Burnt Mill Creek High School after a baseball game. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z It couldn’t really be people playing baseball up there, he knew, with only the hawks and turkey buzzards to watch. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama took two fingers and tucked wayward strands of my hair under the brim of my baseball cap. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He joined pickup games in the park — baseball, basketball. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of the baseball schedule, Stanley's trial was delayed several months. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z In addition to the baseball and sprinkler incidents, Oliver felt the Beiderman had a particular dislike for him because he used to practice dribbling on the sidewalk in front of the brownstone. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The trick was they had to hide their superpowers, which is hard when you are so awesome at baseball. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Tree and Zheegwon taking turns with their baseball cap every hour. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Jax is right behind her, carrying a baseball he tosses high and catches in his glove. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z “But me, I think instead of writing about baseball or football, I’m gonna write about a knight who slays a fire-breathing dragon.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z As good as things might feel in the daytime, I always picked up Pete’s baseball and looked at it each night before going to sleep. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When I arrived at the baseball field minutes later, the visitor stands were already packed full of red-clad Hillpark fans, many of whom I recognized even from a distance. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Cagey baseball managers try to steal an opponent’s signs. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Just the way that Mack dealt with baseball and had all the scouts looking at him, Kitty could deal with the books. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Genie put one foot forward, holding the shovel as if it were a baseball bat and he was about to attempt the worst bunt in history. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z While watching a baseball game in a park, Claudette was joined by a light-skinned black man. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I forgot, he’s like some star on the baseball team. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Or with his father, who wanted to field foul balls or show Clayton his baseball card collection. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z The office smells of sweat and leather—like an old baseball glove. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I nod over at Mr. Kappel, our teacher, who also happens to be the baseball coach. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z After that he took the bat away, but he let me keep the baseball that came with it. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z In situations like these, baseball caps come in really handy. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z But baseball was Mack’s joint and that was where he figured to be headed. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She neatly tucked her long braids under his red baseball cap. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z They come armed with shovels and fireplace pokers and baseball bats. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z But the Zebra Room’s swing music and old-time baseball players couldn’t stop time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z On the wall over Jason’s bed, between two baseball posters, is my drawing of Kristi’s house. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The coach curled his fingers around the grip of his baseball bat. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A fat woman with a Phillies baseball cap and a plastic bag on her lap sat in a chair against the wall. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z When the organ played baseball songs, Papa, Mama, and Little Miss Byrd sang along. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Jeffrey has jumped up, too, and is holding the brim of his baseball cap. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He brought his baseball bat down with full force, but Michael simply caught it and yanked it away from the coach. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He thought about airplanes and video games, pizza and baseball, cupcakes and the Yankees. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Turner wished he had a baseball bat in his hand. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z "Who could forget his movies? Even the one about the baseball team was good," she says with a small smile. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A knot the size of a baseball bulges in my throat, and here comes Tanisha, turning around, looking at me with those sad hazel eyes, mouthing, “I’m sorry.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z To the rabbis who taught in the Jewish parochial schools, baseball was an evil waste of time, a spawn of the potentially assimilationist English portion of the yeshiva day. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z O’Dell had assembled protective shields for us—baseball caps with squares of clear plastic, rescued out of some garbage can, taped to the bills so they hung down in front of our faces. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I reached under my bed and got the baseball bat my father gave me years ago. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z I tell him Safer and I are busy right now, but that I’ll get my homework done early so we can watch some baseball when he gets home. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z And though he hasn’t said anything else about the convict baseballs, I know he’s thinking about it. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z And pointed to my side, which felt like someone hit it with a baseball bat. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z This is the same lady who tackled him that one time they were playing baseball in her backyard and he tried to block her from reaching first base! Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Braden found the same problem with the baseball player Ted Williams. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He was still burning when his father told him to get ready for the season’s last baseball game that evening. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The guard straightens the back of his navy blue baseball cap with his left hand, curving the bill with his right. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He lay dreaming that he was throwing baseballs at a cloth cat and winning a genuine Navajo blanket. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z He was crossing the baseball field at the edge of the woods when he heard something moving through the brush. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Located minutes from downtown San Francisco, a baseball’s throw from where the San Francisco Giants play, it is a gleaming example of a new dedication to understanding the workings of the human brain. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He says it’s not the Mexicans’ fault that the city council would rather spend the city’s money on new arts initiatives and a big, flashy baseball stadium than more police on the streets. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “There are no chained storefronts, traffic jams or pedestrians wandering around wearing Walkman headsets. The Texas League baseball park still has billboards on the outfield fence.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, Shirley, it seems you are not only a good student, but a good baseball player.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Odd, both of us using our baseball skills for survival. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He swung the baseball bat off his shoulder. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z They dressed alike in baseball jerseys, baggy jeans, and Timberlands. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The first child to receive one was a tough-looking boy in a baseball cap who eagerly grabbed it, looked at the first question, and burst into tears. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t you want to hear Little Orphan Annie? Or the Light Crust Doughboys? Or baseball games?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Fay was tall, round-shouldered, and bald, and wore a baseball cap with a state corrections emblem. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She pulls out a baseball cap—a Los Angeles Dodgers baseball cap—puts it on, and faces me. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z The Newsome Park Community Center boasted a kitchen and banquet space, rooms for craft courses and club meetings, basketball and tennis courts, and a baseball diamond for the semipro Newsome Park Dodgers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Or how much he loved it when they took the subway out to the stadium to watch a baseball game. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Back in my bedroom, I have to stop myself from taking the baseball bat to everything, the missing’s so bad. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I can’t get all the dust out of my hair, so I opt for a ponytail and a green Wimbledon baseball cap. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “Likewise, kid. Keep the old beanbag away from those baseballs.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z When they return to pick up their children, they enter and remove their mesh baseball caps. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Armpit didn’t know all that much about baseball, but he was pretty sure that it wasn’t the bat that hit the home runs, but the person who swung it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z My baseball was back at the Festival Theater, in the locked men’s dressing room. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I pick up a frame of a tall man wearing a baseball cap in front of a stadium. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He hands his tree sticks to a boy with a backwards baseball cap. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z I made the hole with a baseball bat Mack gave me for my sixth birthday. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z He was a skinny guy who shaved his head at the beginning of every soccer, hockey, and baseball season. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Just as we get out the door, one man raises a baseball bat, threatening to swing at Alyssa. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “The baseball player is ready to come home.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He and Mia were still close, but there were long afternoons at the baseball diamond in the park, long hours practicing passes and practicing layups. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She scanned her brother’s room: books, old art projects, a few binders of ordinary baseball cards, and his action figure of Hermey the elf. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Ben jumped off the baseball players’ shoulders, landing in an awkward crouch, and then swayed a bit on his way to standing. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The black one has almond-shaped brown eyes that peer up at me kindly from under a baseball cap. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z That baseball book was the first cover on the second shelf in the display case and had given Charles a card with the classic pose of an umpire calling an out. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Somehow the yeshiva team had translated this afternoon’s baseball game into a conflict between what they regarded as their righteousness and our sinfulness. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z “She hit a new student with a baseball not too long ago and really hurt him.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Zach just smirked and took his baseball cap off, smoothing down his hair before putting it back on. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Two: I still wore my Snowberger’s baseball cap and my lime green shorts, and I still sat in my closet, where I did my homework and made my plans. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I’m an active person—I play football, basketball, and baseball. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I pull my faded Wimbledon baseball cap lower over my eyes and slather my chapped lips with balm. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He’d play football until Christmas and baseball until June with the rest of the big guys. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z They’re planning to visit the county baseball museum and the Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame in Jasper. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z We knew we could play baseball with anyone, but getting somewhere was never easy. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, every one of us loved to play baseball and didn’t let the rest of it get in the way. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Maniac’s answer was prompt: “The baseball room. It’s perfect.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried playing baseball, but the only thing he hit with a bat was the head of the coach’s son, by accident. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He was a detached, almost fanatically organized guy who maintained detailed time-management logs and could recite endless baseball statistics. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘Don’t worry, kid. I’m going to line the perimeter with alarms and snares. Plus, I’ll be watching over you the whole time with my baseball bat.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z We traded information on Mommy the way people trade baseball cards at trade shows, offering bits and pieces fraught with gossip, nonsense, wisdom, and sometimes just plain foolishness. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder how the baseball came out in the grand leagues today, he thought. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, if Mrs. Hyatt had given Willy a baseball to glue to the snowman, it would have been placed more carefully. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Rick would be leaning back in his shiny black baseball jacket. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z The baseball news was all I could read and I did not have the slightest interest in it. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Daddy said, “Oh. Well. I really know nothing about lacrosse. Isn't that like baseball only with a different kind of bat?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Mini locked her legs, swinging the Death Danda over her shoulder as if it were a baseball bat. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “I don’t think you pronounce the bat in bat mitzvah like you say baseball bat,” Volpe interjects. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Seattle baseball had never really made it onto a national stage at all. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It seems complicated, but it looks like it’s more fun than getting scratched by bushes, looking for a baseball. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She scooped a handful of silver coins from Hedge’s baseball cap, grabbed duct tape from the coach’s supply bag and began taping coins around her blade. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Actually, there was one thing missing from the Titanic: the New York Giants baseball team. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z He’s wearing a baseball uniform and carrying baseball equipment, and he’s in a hurry. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Then I remember that baseball is a spring sport! I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “You and your crazy way of hitting a baseball,” I said. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I wanna get one of Mr. Lewis’s baseball bats and knock him upside his head. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “Turner,” his mother said quietly, “go upstairs and change into something you can hit a baseball in. And I’ll stop by Mrs. Cobb’s this afternoon.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He knew all about science, about model rocketry, chemistry sets, baseball cards, about American history. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Theo’s all the way on the left, dressed like Benny, wearing a Dodgers cap, an open flannel shirt, and his baseball glove. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z We talk baseball, the opening of the new season. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s out past the gym and the locker rooms, past the basketball courts and the tennis courts and the baseball diamonds. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z To give you an idea, the owner of the neighboring house was the New York Yankees baseball club owner, Dan Topping. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Reverend Buckminster had said nothing about not talking with her, or throwing a baseball with her, or sitting by the green-blue sea with her. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He married her and made the baseball team his own, adding four more kids to make it an even twelve. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Folks from all around will gather on the banks of Wolf Creek to picnic, play baseball, and commiserate about the dreadfully dry weather. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z And there are old posters of baseball players. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z He put on his light tan corduroy jacket and the baseball cap he picked up in Florida. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “I miss talking baseball with you, buddy,” Webb says. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z But to the south it also includes a corner of the soccer field and all of the baseball diamond. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. I have yesterday’s paper and I will read the baseball.’ The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Having read the thing, in a way I can understand why no one says much about Great-Grampy JonJon beyond the fact that he was a great baseball player. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z My brother, the prodigal athlete genius girl magnet, will return to school from...let's say baseball camp...in a couple of days. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Fortunately, I had always been a pretty good pitcher, even though baseball wasn’t my game. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Three sixth graders asked for my autograph on a baseball, which I gave them. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Standing with his back to us is a boy in jeans and a fitted polo shirt—white, taller than me, hair totally covered by a backward baseball cap. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “Scout here has just been telling me you’re quite the baseball player. He says you’re a lot more coordinated than you look.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1920s and 1930s, collegiate crew was wildly popular, often ranking right up there with baseball and collegiate football in the amount of press it received and the crowds it drew. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The middle school has so few students left it can no longer field a baseball team. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “He was great,” I say, “but baseball never gave him the chance he deserved.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z It rains every darn stupid day, except baseball day. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I noticed that her right foot was wrapped in tape, and I wondered if it had something to do with the baseball bat she was carrying. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The man was dressed in a bright blue Windbreaker and was fidgeting with the sweat-stained Toronto Blue Jays baseball cap he held in his hands. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z In one, guys wearing backward baseball caps lie goofily on classroom desks; in another, a group of kids wearing American Revolution-style three-corner hats stand on a lawn. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z She considers the vagaries of sports, the happenstance of El Li'der, a star pitcher in his youth, narrowly missing a baseball career in America. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Shelly looked like she was aching to use that baseball bat. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z They mean the smell of dust and grass on a baseball diamond, the first fresh sea breezes that come all the way inland from Long Island Sound, all the maples decked out in green-gold leaves. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Even more than a chess champion, young Bobby Fischer wanted to be Duke Snider, the legendary Brooklyn Dodgers baseball player. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He went on to tell me about Dwight breaking his pinkie finger at baseball camp. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z And the sound of his voice gets my brain spinning in a different direction: Daddy blew his knee out stealing home during a tournament game when he played baseball in college. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Just then, someone else comes down the stairs, a man in a baseball helmet holding a vacuum cleaner. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z But all I do is sit frozen when Mrs. Fisher reads us a poem about baseball and asks us to write one of our own. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z To the left, behind a baseball backstop, was a green scoreboard. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I picked up the bus driver’s baseball and handed it to Danny. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z It’s a sea of green, a kind of baseball Emerald City, with not a bald patch in the grass far as you can see. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Oh, you mean the ones Marjory Muldauer said she won all by herself?” said a girl in a Wisconsin Badgers baseball cap. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z That first morning, we just hung out around the baseball field and walked the streets, me secretly looking for Flaca and her friends, wondering what I’d do even if I found ’em. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z I thought of fishermen standing on the concrete freighter docks with their bait buckets and tallboys, the baseball game on the radio. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Then he swung it like a baseball bat. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Three guys in baseball caps sit there, hunched over textbooks and notebooks, none of them talking. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Lacking a coach’s launch, he ran up and down the shores of Lake Washington, yelling at his boys through his megaphone, freely mixing baseball slang with rowing terminology and a wide variety of exuberant profanity. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Cotton was lining up bricks along the edge of the road, and Lenny was swinging a baseball bat at rocks that hit the road sign with a clang. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z It has to do with the state championship for baseball when he was in high school. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Stiff, crooked fingers that grappled clumsily with Krimpet wrappers curled naturally around the shape of a baseball. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Mean, I say, “Basketball. Nobody plays baseball no more. Black kids play the court. Want to be Jordan. James. Curry. Lame if you can’t dribble and throw.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z His reference points for sports were the more common football, basketball, and baseball; fencing was still new for him. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “Number Three’s working all the baseball clichés,” Webb says. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z The driver, a woman wearing a baseball cap, waved and yelled hello. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z In the morning, a major league team picked me in the first round to play professional baseball, and in the evening, my baseball team had to play in the semifinal round of the championship. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He pulled his pet back to him and gripped his baseball glove more tightly. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z You can love a baseball team without worrying about not being loved back, or about being awkward in your approach. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Coach Hedge clambered around the turtle’s shell, whacking at it uselessly with his baseball bat and yelling, “Take that! And that!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It was twice the size of any baseball stadium. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z That’s maybe not so exciting for the fans, but it’s good baseball. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And so we went upstairs together, and the party had thinned out a little, but there were still some baseball players, including Jase, over by the keg. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z My father, who won’t let me go to school with a contusion the size of a baseball, has grounded me and banned me from working to stultify my life. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Men in baseball caps and tank tops played pool, clouds of cigarette smoke hovering over the green tables, swirling in the fluorescent light. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I crawl through Voxy’s honeycomb cell and hold my breath as I slip the rolled baseball card into the tiny hole. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Maybe like combine all the sports. Football, baseball, basketball, soccer,” Teddy said. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z On this particular Friday afternoon in October, Mr. Larson was reading an important article about the baseball pennant races. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z He quickly mastered the game, eventually giving up baseball for it. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “A baseball would do the job,” she said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z That man pushed up his baseball cap like he was thinking. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To Berg, baseball had just been a way to make a living. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, ma’am. ’Member when that bunch of Elks come over for their baseball game?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We always played to w in, but just stuck to baseball. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The neighborhood children, they are not very careful. One time my car was on the road and a baseball went through the window. I can park it for you if you like.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z "I saw guys in baseball caps circling the house," Howard recalled. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When I arrived at the baseball diamond Bunny and the other four players on our small team were already practicing. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “But since I am not crazy, I do not care. And the rich have radios to talk to them in their boats and to bring them the baseball.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He was waiting for us and each of us got a baseball cap. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Really, my mom can read the newspaper in fifteen minutes and tell me baseball scores, the location of every war, the latest guy to win the Lottery, and the high temperature in Des Moines, Iowa. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z In the hours not devoted to cooking, cleaning, love-making, rope skipping and trying to get into the baseball game with the boys, Sissy made plans for the coming baby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, something would bleed through—her father, younger, throwing her a baseball. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They played golf together and went out often—to movies, to the theater occasionally, to triple-A baseball games, and to the state university football games. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Easy for you to say. The only thing your parents did was take away your baseball glove. Not exactly a hardship.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Sunday actually began his adult life as a professional baseball player. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z First, she took off Salvador’s jacket and tied it around her hips; then she fished out the baseball cap she had left in the pocket. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z When we got back that day for dinner, the Zuppa Guy called me over and handed me a baseball cap. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Clyde "Sweet Feet" Livingston was a famous baseball player. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “I got enough for a baseball team,” he joked. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But Nick reminded James that his two-year-old daughter would grow up and go to college someday—and besides, hadn’t James once given Nick his whole baseball card collection? Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He is commanding in his own way, but he didn’t feel that way in the presence of the baseball dads. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “This is the first time I’ve ever been picked for baseball. Let’s go before he changes his mind.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z It wasn’t just that his ailments had all cleared up; or that he went to movies now, and baseball games. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Chances are, that house—and the Joe DiMaggio glove that caught and killed my great-grandfather’s baseball career—is long gone. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z That may have been sufficient for the court, but not for baseball. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Told the story of a very important baseball glove that went missing from a silent charity auction. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z The baseball team was in the middle of a winning streak where he’d pitched two no hitters and his fastball was coming in consistently at eighty-nine mph. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z "It started out okay. I bought her a program, a hot dog, even a souvenir foam baseball." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Or do what baseball teams do when it’s late in the game and they need a solid batter to bring the guys on base home? If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “There was this kid on the baseball team. People thought, I don’t know. They saw that he went to some website or something.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The sports anchorman went through the professional baseball and football stuff, then the college football scores, and then the high school scores. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lights twinkled off the Anacostia River as we crossed the bridge onto Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, the Nationals baseball stadium in the distance. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z We kept the baseball bat beside us and never once turned our backs to the tents. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z She stood, filling the doorway, and looked at Salvador and Lupita, who had taken off the baseball cap to let her braids show. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z He pulls a crumpled baseball cap from his back pocket, slides it down until his forehead is gone. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z His eyes fell on the baseball next to her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “You get a convict baseball, you’ll show it to me first, right?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Then on the way back to class Scout says, “I’ll trade you my extra glove for one of those convict baseballs. You find one of ’em yet?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m glad you didn’t quit baseball, Silas. It would’ve made me sad because...do you know what I like best about the way you play?” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Two boys toss a baseball to each other. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I squinted at my mom, standing beside my bed wearing an old pair of jeans, plaid shirt and baseball cap. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z He's wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap, so I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be seeing. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I glance down at the baseball card and pull it out of the plastic sleeve labeled with its owner’s name on a sticker. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It went in nice and neat, like a baseball into a glove. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She hurled the cup toward the sink with a baseball player’s fast, hard pitch. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “What are you freaks doing out here?” he says, slamming the truck door and turning his baseball hat around backward, rolling up a sleeve like he’s about to get into some dirty work. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z He passed away when I was six, but I would be lying if I said I had many memories of him besides the one where he told me why he stopped playing baseball. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z I’d played basketball and baseball and done the Cub Scout thing, tried the Boy Scout thing—but I always kept my distance from the other boys. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z The other two were dressed in jeans jackets and pants, wearing baseball hats backward and new Adidas sneakers. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Even though he was from the Deep South he loved the New York Yankees baseball team. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Grace is driving me to baseball practice, but I’m not wearing my usual practice jersey and sweats. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z She held up a heavy garden shovel and passed Sierra a baseball bat. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z My dad talks to him a lot and teaches him how to throw and hit a baseball. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z After hearing that for maybe the fiftieth time, and learning more about my family’s baseball legacy, it occurred to me that the trunk might not be real. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z It goes down my throat like a baseball. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not going to wear this,” I say, stuffing the Ghostface mask into my baseball bag. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z In a metal-wire wastebasket was a basketball and a football and a baseball mitt still cradling a stained and scruffed-up ball. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z “You don’t know how many hours I spent learning how to field and hit a baseball.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He pulled his baseball cap lower over his face and made sure that he hadn't finished the film in his camera. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z My hair is tucked into a baseball cap; my old-school Wayfarers cover half my face. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “Nope. But if the baseballs come flying over the prison wall, you get to keep ’em.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The baseball bat changed into a huge, two-handed sword. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Kappel, baseball coach, says, “Get to class, Finch. You too.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z A kid new to Stirling named Max Wade, who rarely came to open gym because he also played soccer and baseball. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z The pose he settled on was something like a baseball player sliding into third base, but with his head propped on his elbow as if taking a nap. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I turned, and there he was in the night sky, flying in from twelve o’clock with his winged shoes fluttering, Grover, holding a tree branch the size of a baseball bat. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z When I was in the sixth grade, my parents gave me a baseball glove and a typewriter for my birthday. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Books, papers, shoes, football helmets, baseball bats, dolls, trucks, bicycles, musical instruments, lay everywhere and were used by everyone. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing a Yankees baseball cap with the front of it pulled down over his eyes so that he had to lift his whole face to look at me. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z Neither of them bothered to point out that baseball teams cost way more than five million dollars. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “Looks like the high school has a baseball team.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Jax adjusts his baseball cap, and I brace myself as he opens the lobby door again, letting in cold and rain and noise until the door closes behind him. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z He is a baseball player, all-county, even a possible pro prospect. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z After breakfast he settled in front of the baseball game. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z It was bright and hot so he gave me his baseball hat. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Afterward, they signed our baseballs and signed our mitts. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Turner wondered if his father had ever played baseball, had ever hit a fly into air so blue that it hurt his eyes to look at it. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z They always came to my baseball games and basketball tournaments and soccer matches. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “My two baseball players,” he said, and smiled. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z As the moving van exited the freeway and rattled past the baseball stadium, Emily tried to focus on the positive: Book Scavenger! Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z There was a house out by the baseball park he patronized. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Today they were playing superhero baseball, which was a variation Jack had invented on the theory that superheroes, too, needed organized sports. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “Let’s go set up the sprinkler in the garden,” Gus said to me, tugging on his dirty baseball cap. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Mr. Lemoncello whipped off the baseball cap and put the director’s beret back on. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z There was football, baseball, basketball, track, as long as you could keep your GPA above a 2.0. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Evers was out near Delaware Park, a line of bare trees at its back, a baseball field off to one side. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z His hair had grown and was tucked underneath a faded black baseball cap. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Abby was in the yard, holding the garden shovel like a baseball bat. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z “Now we know it’s baseball season,” I continue. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Dunse kept his nose in a book all the time and couldn’t hit a baseball if you hung it on a string in front of his bat. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z And then a glob of saliva flew like a baseball from his mouth and over the gravel. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “Much faster. But I was going to the hospital. Today I am driving to a baseball game.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Lupita quickly realized why the pickers all wore straw hats, because her wool baseball cap was unbearably hot. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z The Talib, looking absurdly like a baseball pitcher on the mound, hurled the stone at the blindfolded man in the hole. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She, who, unbeknownst to Clayton, loved watching a baseball game at the stadium, was always welcome to join them. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Terrified that the baseball cap might fall off and reveal her braids, Lupita didn’t resist as he reached down with his other hand and pulled out the pocket linings of the jacket she wore. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z As Ms. McMillan disappeared through a door at the rear of the room, Candice wondered what had happened to her throwback Hank Aaron jersey she always wore to baseball games. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Ms. Washington let me turn the classroom into a pretend baseball field for my oral presentation on a famous inventor. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z “It just doesn’t make sense,” Moms will say, flipping the channel to a baseball game or some reality show we all like. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z But the more I ran and smiled and thought of baseball my old kid self was found again, until we passed by Miss Volker’s front porch and I heard her faintly call my name. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z My dad played college baseball for two years, but he had to stop when Mom got pregnant with my brother. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z One purchasing committee found a large department store which gave us wholesale rates on everything from underwear to baseball gloves. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Their classmate marched briskly out of the hotel lobby wearing a bright blue sweatshirt and a Toronto Blue Jays baseball cap. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z For decades, baseball fans in Seattle had to choose an eastern team to root for if they wanted a stake in the big leagues. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Next, we see a black guy in a leather jacket and baseball cap walking into a diner. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He could’ve passed for one of those fancy rich bankers over in Raleigh except for the garden dirt under his fingernails and his hair squashed flat from his baseball cap. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z On Wednesday I find out Piper has given Scout 105’s baseball, and then she’s stopped talking to Scout. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, it seems that players play baseball to make money. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In this instance, the baseball team is using imagery associated with a fighting force organized in the 1800s to attack Indigenous people who were protecting their homelands from white settlers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The ball comes at me fast, even though it's an underhand throw, different than baseball. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We did occasionally play actual baseball, but not enough kids had gloves to make a good game. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I kept looking for Irene on the beach, relieved, somehow, to see her there, her face shaded by a white baseball cap, her hands busy building something in the thick sand. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Like the young men, the women talked about classes and sometimes about baseball too. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He wore bright blue orthopedic sandals, a faded Bob Marley T-shirt, and a white baseball hat that said, HAM, BACON, SAUSAGE. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I lay on my back, closed my eyes, pulled my Snowberger’s baseball cap over my face, and listened to the sound of Listening Rock baking in the sun. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Soccer, baseball, field hockey, football, softball, basketball, swimming, track—all of those are fine. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z And a baseball mitt, signed by someone who played for the Orioles in 1997. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I didn’t leave the farm much except to go to work and play baseball. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I had never really owned anything of my own, except for Pete’s baseball. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I see a little boy in a red baseball cap that reminds me of Devon’s red Potomac Nationals baseball cap. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Henry laughs indulgently, and Alex closes the space between them, takes Henry’s baseball cap off and stands on his toes to kiss the ridge of his brow. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Gentlemen,” I say in my Webb voice, “this is what I call baseball weather.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z If I could just tell him what happened to my baseball cap. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Thousands of fans spent lazy summer evenings rooting for their family and friends on teams in an industrial baseball league that included the Swift Premiums. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He’s got a mouth full of silver teeth and wears a gray baseball jersey. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Sure, I hung out around Red Witch Bridge in the middle of the night, but that was in the cover of the trees with an urban legend and a baseball bat as weapons. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Just then a thought hit me like a baseball bat. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The mushy bullet splashed on his back, leaving a reddish, purplish wound the size of a baseball. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z And Ernie Eco said that the prize for the Trivia Contest was going to be a baseball signed by a Yankee. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I even took one of Dad’s baseball hats to wear on my head. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z During the trial period, boys and girls demonstrated their physical fitness: They ran races, threw baseballs, swam, and performed gymnastics stunts. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z My next thought was the baseball game in the flooded school yard. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I followed her eyes and saw Becca Arrington draped all over some baseball player like she was an ornament and he a Christmas tree. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I tried to imagine the ghost surrounded with sunlight and baseball games and poetry—good stuff that would push the ghost away. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z She put on her Yankees baseball cap, which was a magic gift from her mom, and instantly vanished. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z My mother told me the other bag contained the most ridiculous clothes, all new: bright California- style beachwear, baseball caps, cotton pants with elastic waists, bomber jackets, Stanford sweatshirts, crew socks. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I took off my own coat, wrapped it around him, and put my baseball cap on his head. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Lucky for me, the words fly toward me like a fastball in baseball. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z The older boys had basketball and baseball and football teams. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Between the car floating real soft down the road and Lefty Lewis’s boring stories about the railroad and the union and baseball I was out cold in no time. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z And baseball in Seattle had recently experienced a major setback—one of many more to come—when the wooden stands at the Indians’ ballpark, Dugdale Park, burned to the ground in July 1932. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “He was...he was the first major league baseball player to come out as gay.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z I’m able to make out some of them—flowers, a duck, a baseball, smiley faces, a rainbow. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z He hoped he played baseball, because these high glory days of summer were baseball days if any days were baseball days, with blue skies, warm seas, and high clouds lazy above the ocean horizon. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The next thing that Kitty did was to organize a little get-together with Peewee and some of the guys on the baseball team. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “That couldn’t have been him. If Mr. X wore a baseball cap, it would be black.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Sure he is. Listen, I don’t sign baseballs for kids in yellow tights.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “He is a baseball player,” said Mrs. Baker. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z He kept them on and yanked a baseball jacket off its hanger. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z I’m flushed, like I’ve done something wrong, again, but I realize helping Michael will get me some points with Miss McDaniels, especially after the baseball incident. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z In 1891, Sunday shocked both his teammates and fans by quitting baseball to become a preacher. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “A standing cat with a baseball cap. I like it. I like it very much.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z If Sally had not been married, or if his father were not such a baseball fan, it would have been a good time to talk. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Are they old enough to remember anything of the time before, playing baseball, in jeans and sneakers, riding their bicycles? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z He worked for the Rangers and he had some tickets for me to a baseball game against the New York Yankees! Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I want frogs and a baseball glove and a mom.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Beyond stands a scattered complex of buildings among which move crowds of people in shorts and baseball caps. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He handed Harry a small club, a bit like a short baseball bat. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “Played some baseball but nothing to brag about.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward Guitar had taken off his baseball cap and handed it to Milkman, telling him to wipe the blood from his nose. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z In baseball, I have a good arm and a bat, and I can field, but I am not interested in playing it after high school. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Carl reached over and pulled the baseball cap down over my eyes. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z As soon as Beans tore open his presents—baseball from Palmer, pocketknife from Henry, Campbell’s baked beans from Mutto—Mutto called out, “Treatment! Treatment!” and dragged Beans outside. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z And you are made of baseball and superheroes and castles, and of lots of Hazels-past, even if you lost them to the wind, it doesn’t matter. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z One seventh grader took off his baseball hat in reverence. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Frank with his baseball hat and his thick beard. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “We need a radio dictator, just as the movies, baseball have.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z As the moving van exited the freeway and rattled past the baseball stadium, Emily tried to focus on the positive: Book Scavenger! Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “That is, somebody lost them. They’re gone. They weren’t there in the pile of luggage from the ship. One of my skirts was really cute too! And Akira had a baseball jacket.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Wait,” I say, thinking, of that morning in the elevator, “does he wear a baseball cap with a fish on it?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “If one of them was a horse and the other a baseball player, we’d be better off, believe me. They could turn in a profit.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Reese, who lived on the first floor in my building and managed a Negro team, thought I might be able to play baseball, in a few years if the Negro Leagues were still around. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z It was, Turner figured, as good as a baseball game on Boston Common. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z To anyone else, it was a ratty old scrap of leather, barely recognizable as a baseball glove, fit for the garbage can. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There are two pairs of old batters’ gloves and a slightly dried-out glove for fielding—the type of glove people think about when they hear the word “baseball”—and there’s a deliciously worn catcher’s mitt. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Those were all the real things Hazel had left, other than the baseball—which was just a fantasy, really. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I lie there for a minute or two and then reach up to my head, which now feels like I’ve grown a baseball. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z My team lost, and just like that, my high school baseball career is over. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z And why did baseball players spend so much time spitting and then making sudden incomprehensible runs? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z After Wambui left, she went to the drugstore, Curt’s baseball hat pulled over her head. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They’re strange, with blond men on horses and crazy baseball bats with thorns. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Mike persevered, a coach’s dream who worked hard and became a gifted student of the game of football, just as he had in baseball with his father. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He said, “I see you play ball as well as you read books, Danny. I hope you are not as violent with a book as you are with a baseball.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z It poured one week, so Tommy didn’t have baseball, and the next, he got sick on the way to practice. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Hazel looked at the baseball and then exhaled. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He eyed his baseball and glove and then crossed to the bureau and stuffed them into the backpack. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Frankie would come racing over to show her a new baseball card. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z Jeans and an old baseball shirt under his bomber jacket. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z She was also wearing a pale-blue baseball cap with the Ari’s Cakes logo on it, her wavy brown hair tied back into a low bun. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z She gave the peak of my baseball cap a gentle tap and told me not to go anywhere, she’d be right back. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Somewhere there was a baseball diamond yellow with dust and green with summer grass. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z "Way to go, Sweet Feet!" said another baseball player, slap-ping his hand. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Her poor kid cowered at her side, pulling down the bill of his baseball cap, his dirt-covered cheeks flaming. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Fearing that her baseball cap would ignite, Lupita clutched it to her head, turned, and ran away. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z With savage scorn I’d refer to the ‘animals’ playing football or baseball. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z On the one hand, I know college could be one of the greatest times of my life, but on the other, starting my professional baseball career early could help me reach my goals sooner. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I pulled out the baseball Pete had given to me three years earlier when I was nine. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Annabelle was wearing her big puffy coat and braids and a baseball cap, and Will tugged one braid playfully and said “Pippi.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Favorite baseball team—the Baltimore Orioles for her and the New York Yankees for me. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z It would have been highly unusual to be a New York Yankees fan in Philadelphia, which had two major league baseball teams of its own, one in each league, through the mid-1950s. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z It is fairly remarkable to think that Ford has been building cars and baseball has been playing World Series for longer than we have known that the Earth has a core. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I think he sensed my frustration at living in mutually exclusive worlds and thought a game of baseball would bring together my neighborhood friends and my wealthier Riverdale classmates and broaden the horizons of both. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In the world of a small Texas town, where the four seasons of the year were football, basketball, track, and baseball, there was no greater condemnation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Fractions were like baseball statistics, three hits out of ten is .300 or 3/10. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “But Mom has just allowed me to play baseball tonight,” I cried out, and nearly broke into tears. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Gus out in the garden in his greasy baseball cap, picking nasty green worms off the tomato plants. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Jus is the Thug, naturally: pants belted around his thighs with boxers exposed, Thug Life T-shirt, thick gold chain with a huge medallion, fitted flat-billed baseball cap. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Who was the first baseball player to hit sixty home runs in one season?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z For one thing, instinctive judgments rely on experience, and we don’t experience everything that happens on a basketball court or a baseball diamond. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Shoving back his baseball cap, Neves levered himself into the excavation site, a six-foot, rectangular hole with the right-angled corners and precisely vertical walls that are a hallmark of archaeological investigation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Even my demigod eyes couldn’t make out its exact form through the ash and fire, but it was vaguely humanoid and so huge it could’ve used the Chrysler Building as a baseball bat. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z What Bobby achieved in going undefeated in both Bled and Stockholm was the chess equivalent of pitching two successive no-hitters in baseball’s World Series. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He rips off his baseball uniform to reveal a very Tiny purple polo shirt and chino shorts. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z My mom reached over and gave the peak of my baseball cap a tap. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “That way I might could play baseball every year or two with Pink and them, or go fishing sometime.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I watched the people wearing baseball caps, who were moving around the shark. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z And I could see that Erik was holding a metal baseball bat in one hand. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a large expanse to the left of the school which was used alternately as a baseball diamond or a basketball court. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore an army baseball cap with the flap turned back, like Nick Yew. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The thing is, Swastika 2.0—the one on the baseball banner—is painted in roofing tar. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “I need some luck tomorrow. I’m playing baseball with Larry and them,” he said. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Mister Johnny’s mama brought back two crates from Mexico, heavy as baseballs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It was one of those large red plastic cups that vendors use at professional baseball games. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z A marching band played an out- of-tune fight song that sounded like somebody hitting a bag of cats with a metal baseball bat. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Mr. Ballard had supposedly already given me this signed baseball and a hundred dollars and stuff. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “I was going to be a baseball player,” says ghost boy. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z The accident with the baseball has bound him to you, and he has already sensed in you someone he can talk to without fear. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z They were in civilian clothes, and I thought, Cops—until I saw the baseball bat and started to turn, hearing, "Hey, you!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s brown as my mitt On a bedpost, And just as quick: A baseball rolls His way and his teeth Chatter after it. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It had a forlorn baseball diamond and some oxidized playground equipment. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Does he wear a red Potomac Nationals baseball cap? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I mean, what would you do if you found a baseball with only 215 stitches? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She pulls a baseball cap out of her backpack and puts it on. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The way the show worked was that contestants would choose a category, such as movies, opera, baseball, etc., and answer questions that would become exponentially more difficult and ultimately more valuable. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The sports appetite in that city was insatiable—they had professional teams in football, basketball, baseball, and hockey—and it matched my ambition. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad used to take me to baseball practice on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, but his new boss won’t let him leave the office. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z “First baseball as a youth, then track and tennis in college and beyond. But truly, it was his family he loved more than anything else in the world. They were his everything.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z They had baseball bats, real ones, not the whittled two-by-fours most people carried, and wore sunglasses. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Varsity football and baseball captain, on my way to college just a few months from now. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s not how it is. Once I’ve got the ball, I’m in control. I’m not reacting; I’m making choices. And I hit. The team has bats. You don’t know baseball.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Sorry,” I said, standing and hurrying back up to the copse to find my baseball bat, trying to figure out what I’d been thinking. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z And I can see across the baseball diamond in case somebody tries to come in here and mess everything up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Ms. Gruwell’s been really understanding with this whole process, because her dad played baseball and she understands the game. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z An older man and a younger man, both wearing green vests and baseball caps, stood behind the counter, chitchatting. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Like my father when he’s being a proud Pullman porter seeing the world, and baseball and not cooped up in Tuxedo Junction. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She played basketball, volleyball, soccer, and baseball, and stood out to her coaches, particularly an African American woman named Rhonda Brown, who coached volleyball. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z At the soccer field a mob of kids was gathered around a man with a neon pink baseball cap. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Some of our best prizes were a baseball cap, a beat-up weather vane shaped like a chicken, and a beautiful feather that looked like it might have come from a peacock. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Jordan’s waiting in the car. He’s not real happy, because there’s a baseball game on TV and he had to leave before it was over. Hurry!” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Like suddenly, instead of being made of baseball and castles and superheroes and Jack-ness, he was made of something scratchy and thick. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Emily’s dad took off his baseball cap to wipe sweat off his brow and waved it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z You're not really into baseball but you give the book a chance for obvious reasons, plus you need to earn some minutes. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “Black polo shirts and Pittsburgh Pirates baseball caps.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “He’s as argumentative as ever, but happier because riding trains he gets to see Negroes play baseball ‘in the flesh and on the lot, goddamnit.’ Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They are mad to get a baseball game up soon. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The older guys tossed a ratty baseball back and forth. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Take it easy, fella. I got your baseball, didn’t I?” the con says. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitting on the sandbox corner, looking bored, with his head propped in a baseball glove, was a boy in a faded red T-shirt. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z From the middle of the school’s baseball field, a deep voice cut through the surrounding noise. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z It was only a good baseball throw away, but it looked like forever with darkness all around and wolves behind me. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z After lunch another worker said there was someone else she wanted us to meet, but Luke took the opportunity to bolt toward the baseball diamond. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The waiting shooters chatted and joked with each other, their guns slung like baseball bats on their shoulders. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Forced out of baseball, Glenn Burke started drinking and doing drugs. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z She was good at baseball, and she was better at soccer than most of the kids in the whole school, boys or girls. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She stands in front of me, wearing some kind of crazy helmet with bars across the face and holding a baseball bat. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z He showered, groped around in the dark for his brown pants, a beige shirt, and his new Old Navy baseball cap. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "Everything went wrong. She shouted at the umpires, cheered in the wrong places, and then she actually threw the foam baseball onto the playing field." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The United States abounded with dollar bills, baseball sluggers, raccoon coats, diamond jewelry—and lonely, immigrant bachelors. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Another man, a Recruiter with his whistle, shorts, and baseball hat, opened the back door and stepped out with his hands raised in the air. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Finally I see his red baseball cap over by the slide and run up behind him. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I stared across the dark baseball field and thought about me and Rondell. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The last stop on our tour was Dari’s room, where Indian mixed with American, Bollywood posters bordered baseball posters. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Enoch shared his last name with another boy on the team, so the baseball players called him “Big” Washington to differentiate the two. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Like, in baseball. Like, out of nowhere. I mean, what made you think of that?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Sir Donald, who everybody had thought was Uncle Woodrow “Woody” Peckleman, took off his Blue Jays baseball cap and twirled it in front of his face as he took a bow. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z He found a job working twenty to thirty hours per week, earning $8.50 an hour, for the Salt Lake Bees, a minor league baseball team. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z And up a little farther was a short row of carnival-type stalls, the kind where you can win a stuffed animal if you throw a baseball into a basket. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z I skipped hand washing, and instead I pulled on my lime green shorts and my Snowberger’s baseball shirt. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z As Ignatius was considering the delight which the little baseball game afforded humanity, the two sad and covetous eyes moved toward him through the crowd like torpedoes zeroing in on a great woolly tanker. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “And now,” Mr. Brademas continues, “on to happier matters. It’s time to congratulate our baseball team on their championship season this past spring.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z It had been a long time since I’d been on a baseball field. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z And then she found herself looking at the baseball again. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I sat down with Isaiah and Luca even though I’d never met them before, and we talked about baseball the whole time, and I played basketball with them at recess. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Coach Hedge crept forward with his baseball bat, eyeing the magic horse suspiciously. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z One of them is wearing a backward-facing baseball cap, with a tuft of black hair sticking through the gap. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Miles leaned against the truck’s side, looking familiar in an old baseball shirt and bomber jacket. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “Do you think baseball is ready for someone like Glenn Burke now?” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Ask yourself this question: Am I thinking of the baseball team, or the players? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked along without their usual baseball chatter. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z So what I did, I wrote about my brother Allie's baseball mitt. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z But a baseball field was the only place where he felt he was exactly where he was born to be. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Alcatraz sits smack in the middle of the bay—so close to the city of San Francisco, I can hear them call the score on a baseball game on Marina Green. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Myron often regaled me with stories of the lame stuff they used to do together in that room—play board games like Risk and Stratego, trade baseball cards, set up their own Nerf basketball leagues. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z One thug whacked Shorty across the shoulders with a baseball bat, and, as the foreman tried to spin around, another man kicked him in the balls and he sat down, half-blacking out, half-vomiting. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Okay, so he loved baseball,” he said once it ended. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z On Sunday afternoons, after high mass, they went to baseball games and ate roasted peanuts from brown paper cones. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z By fourth period, I’m wearing the baseball cap I brought from home, just in case. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z She started reading: “‘On September twenty-eighth, Poppy Lopez went to Mrs. Garcia’s office and told her that she thought she saw someone taking a baseball bat to her car. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Take the wheel so I can get my baseball bat!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She had nothing left, except a baseball, matches, and a broken piece of mirror. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z No matter what Annie says, I’m going to find a baseball today. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But in the spring there aren’t any contact sports, just baseball and track and field. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z The article doesn’t mention there being proof or if JonJon was arrested, but it does reiterate what the headline said: he was kicked out of his baseball league and stripped of the records he’d set. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z The kids love him because he spends more time in a baseball cap than a suit. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Besides, he was rich; unlike most boys his age, he had never even begun collecting baseball cards. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z "I dunno," said Scott, pushing his baseball cap down over his eyes. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z He can hit a baseball out of that park like nobody else. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z His stubby legs were a study in unsound construction, with squarish, asymmetrical “baseball glove” knees that didn’t quite straighten all the way, leaving him in a permanent semicrouch. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I still get them, but they’re not nearly as bad. Like a little stick hitting my head compared to a baseball bat.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z “I guess baseball isn’t the Mattaman family sport,” I say under my breath. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But to me that was baseball: a warm night, the smell of popcorn, and the sound of the ball hitting the bat. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I know Flaca told me ten p.m., but I can’t remember if she said to meet her at the baseball field or on the playground where we were hanging out on swings. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z He stared out the window, his attention on the students jogging and walking around the track beyond the baseball field. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Both boys thumped their fists on their chests like baseball players do. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z It looked like a baseball in there, or even a softball. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I know that because when he was a kid, I went out and bought him a glove, a baseball glove, and I had to take it back because he was left-handed. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a baseball star, one of the top players in the area, a naturally strong and fast child who rode a two-wheeler before he was four years old. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I see Mom rear back, like a baseball player in slow motion. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z And almost every day, there would be baseball games on the radio, games to listen to all summer long. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “You really don’t own a bat? You love baseball, but don’t own a bat?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z A senior in 1931-32, he would graduate with ten varsity letters, including three in basketball and three in baseball. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z So Hazel took it, and she kept it on her bookshelf, and sometimes she looked at it and said to herself, That is a Joe Mauer signed baseball, and she understood. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The taller man wearing an old-fashioned baseball hat walks directly to the nearest bank. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Behind Grandpa was a ruddy-faced man with a wild swirl of red hair pushing out from under his baseball cap, which had a Maytag logo. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I jump back to the middle of the room and tell the rest of the Glenn Burke story—how the high five spread through baseball, spread through all sports, and spread all around the world. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z He was out of breath and sweaty, and I figured he really didn’t want to catch up to the Hells Angels and try to arrest them with a baseball bat. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z This is why I only take my shirt off around people who don’t read—like Cade Hernandez and pretty much everybody associated with the Burnt Mill Creek High School Pioneers baseball team. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I brushed off my baseball cap as I entered. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z There is baseball paraphernalia all over the place: framed posters—all signed—tacked up on the slanted walls, a case full of plaques and trophies, and a rack of variously sized old-school Louisville Slugger bats. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Luma betrayed no reaction other than to adjust her tattered white Smith College baseball cap. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “Just like you missed the shot and lost the baseball game—” “Basketball game,” I said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I held out the new perfect white baseball and whispered, “Can I please have your autograph?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Along with the pleasure of playing baseball there was the joy of identifying with the ballplayers. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z He's wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap as he walks his dog. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A pair of jeans with a leather belt, a pair of flip-flops, a Winter Park High School Wildcats baseball cap, and a baby blue polo shirt. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z In those days, we didn’t wear baseball helmets. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s better. Participation is welcome, but one at a time. Let’s do talk about baseball!” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The man is tall and has a baseball cap tugged low over his face. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z This is a term Dad uses with Anthony when they’re talking through baseball stuff. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z A kid watching a baseball practice—nothing could be more normal, yet his heart skidded. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Then he took a thick needle and thread and, with deft, quick strokes, he sewed it up, like a man stitching a baseball: the cadaver transformed from meat into girl once again. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Over it a baseball card of the first female pitcher in the majors hangs in a plastic mount. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “I mean, is there something special about baseball that fits the special kind of people we are and the special kind of country America is?” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “Next question. In 1960, the Yankees hit more home runs than any other team in baseball history. How many did they hit?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Our equipment is set up at the baseball held for our class. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The garage door was mostly closed, propped open with a baseball bat. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z It was about as long as a baseball bat, and nearly as heavy. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Just like before, I crawl through Voxy’s sleep cell, poking the rolled baseball card into the hole so the door slides shut behind me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The only time he had ever had contact with whites was during summer league baseball, but otherwise he stayed behind the concrete wall that fenced him and his friends in like cattle. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Years ago he’d been a star pitcher in one of the black baseball leagues and the history of his career was nailed and pasted all over his shop. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s Noah swinging a baseball bat at Brian who shatters into pieces. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z They played basketball and baseball outside and football video games in the house—sitting on the floor or couch, with controllers in their hands. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z There wasn’t anything good on, so I sorted baseball cards for a while. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought only pro football and baseball games get crowds like that. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Gleeson Hedge dropped directly behind Orion, smacking his baseball bat over the giant’s head so hard the Louisville Slugger cracked in half. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I thought of the baseball game, and I asked myself, Was it only last Sunday that it happened, only five days ago? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z When we entered, I almost had a heart attack: Every single member of the band was wearing a matching red baseball cap. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked at Daddy, leaning on his cane, and thought about how the dream of playing professional baseball has just passed down, and down, and down...and gone unaccomplished. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z “You’re a very lucky young man. Go home, and for heaven’s sake keep your head away from baseballs.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z We played sandlot baseball and rarely had a ball that was not taped, or resewn so that it had a lump in it that gave it a natural curve when you threw it. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z She was startled, most of all, by the teenage boy in a baseball cap standing near a brick wall, face down, body leaning forward, hands between his legs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He took off his baseball cap and wiped the sweat from his face with his shirt. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z “But what is it about baseball that is ideally suited to Americans?” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z And he repeated the old words: “If they was a circus or a baseball game . . . . we would of went to her . . . . jus’ said ‘ta hell with work,’ an’ went to her. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z His jeans are half tucked into his boots and his baseball cap is fraying and trimmed in sweat stains. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Years later, when her father was in New York, baseball became their obsession. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He understood that Farquar somehow knew his body better than he himself did, that there was no need to rear back like a baseball pitcher and bring the whole fist. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Turner did not play the rest of the game, which was just as well, folks figured, since they were down to their last baseball. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “This is a baseball team, and these are boys,” Coach Noles says. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z The monster shook his fist, and a baseball cap fluttered to the ground. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Dunston University was a private school in Oklahoma, with a top-notch baseball program and one of the nation’s best liberal arts schools. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The woman had a gray ponytail and the guy had a baseball cap and glasses. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “Did you ever play baseball in Mexico?” he asked Salvador. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z She has a Mets baseball hat on, with a ponytail looped through the back. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Yep, and, get this: the boy in the book is really good at baseball, and he’s from Vietnam. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Martín and Brian sat at the bar area next to the kitchen to watch TV, flipping from MMA to basketball to hockey to baseball without settling on anything for more than three minutes. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He wore a baseball cap all day and half the night, his scraggly brown hair poking out from under it every which way. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z He wiggled a baseball glove out from the stocking. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Playing baseball together—his father had been one of the best pitchers in the state until he got a taste for raising hell. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “It was your first baseball game,” Granddad prompted. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “I work for a living! I’m asleep by nine o’clock every night, and I—and I—” Jack whips his baseball cap off again. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The owner of a black baseball team remembered that he “moved four times...seeking desirable living quarters.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And of course, as happens with baseball, one thing led to another, and pretty soon the two of them were tossing a ball back and forth. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing a Medicine Hat baseball cap and a black Medicine Hat T-shirt. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z But I didn’t know Glenn Burke wore number three until I was researching him and came across the photo of his 1978 Topps baseball card. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z He talked to him sometimes at Zach’s baseball games, which Volpe regularly attended, along with the athletic events of his other theater kids who were on teams. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He shakes his head and pulls down on the bill of his baseball cap. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z His coarse graying hair is matted with salt air and there’s a lump the size of a baseball on the back of his neck. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was after dark when they got back to the baseball- equipment room. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We stood by the cash register until Abby’s dad exited the kitchen wearing a stained apron and a backward baseball cap. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “Tell me about the baseball,” the boy asked him. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard stories of how they had “persuaded” people with lead pipes, wet cement, baseball bats, brass knuckles, fists, feet, and blackjacks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The only really bad thing about my bionic Lobot hearing aids was the fact that I couldn’t wear a baseball cap anymore. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z The old skull crumbled to dust as the giant hefted the tree like a baseball bat. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “It all started with a silly baseball game,” I said. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z And Amos is known for being a really good baseball player. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z The newspaper near his chair has a photo of a Boston baseball player who is smiling after pitching a shutout. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel like I held my sister hostage for that stupid baseball. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Shelly looked like she was aching to use that baseball bat. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Momma had her hand around his throat like it was a baseball bat and was holding him up in the air. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I think about Billy Martin, the As manager, who made sure everyone knew that people like Glenn Burke didn’t belong in baseball. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Those two teams played smart baseball, the way I liked to see it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There wasn’t anything on I wanted to watch, but he knew I didn’t like baseball, so he turned it to some mindless sitcom that neither of us enjoyed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z It took a San Francisco dentist, former pro baseball player and investor named Charles “Doc” Strub to change his mind. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Jase and some baseball players flipped him right-side-up and carried him around on their shoulders. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He’s wearing a baseball hat, and a T-shirt. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z All that summer, while Josiah and Tayo watched the cattle and the sheep camp, and Robert worked in the fields each day, Rocky read magazines and ran laps at the baseball diamond twice a day. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Before Jackie Robinson broke the color line, I wasn’t permitted even to think about being a professional baseball player. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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