Formerly the worst hitter on the team, Chad Griffin's hitting definitely improves when a major-league all-star coaches his team, but then the sixth-grader discovers something very disturbing about the coach.

Playing baseball was the one thing that made twelve-year-old Nick Crandall feel at home until he found acceptance with adoptive parents, but he faces a new struggle to fit in when he becomes the first seventh-grader ever to make the varsity baseball team.

Stosh travels back to 1969 to try to prevent the untimely death of Roberto Clemente, a legendary baseball player and humanitarian, but upon his return to the present, he meets his own great-grandson who takes him into the future, and what he finds there is more shocking than anything he has encountered in his travels to the past.

"It's a big week at Cogwheel Stadium--the Clayton Cogs are playing for the pennant! But the other team's batters seem to know the pitches too well, and it's clear someone in the stadium is stealing the Cogs' pitchers signals. Now the Boxcar Children must find out who is spying for the other team!"--P. [4] of cover.

Fourteen-year-old Kevin Boland, poet and first baseman, is torn between his cute girlfriend Mira and Amy, who is funny, plays Chopin on the piano, and is also a poet.

Dodger manager Spike Russell's efforts to rally his team to a pennant victory are threatened by a scheming club secretary and the seeming irresponsibility of a star rookie pitcher.

An African American family in Cleveland, Ohio, listens on their new radio to the first game of the 1948 World Series, in which Larry Doby, the first black player in the American League, won the game for the Cleveland Indians.

A baseball pitcher with an incurable blood disease is determined to get in as much time on the mound as possible.

The Dodgers are worried about one of their rookies who keeps messing up for no apparent reason.

A nine-year-old Brooklyn boy from an immigrant Jewish family makes his passion for baseball the guiding force of his life.