When Jimmie is elected captain of his baseball team, his first decision is to appoint himself pitcher. But Jimmie's selfish move could ruin the whole team...

"Mariano Rivera never dreamed of becoming a professional athlete. He didn't grow up collecting baseball cards, playing Little League, or cheering on his home team at the World Series. He had never heard of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, or Mickey Mantle. One day, that all changed. From a childhood playing pickup games in Panama to an epic career with the New York Yankees, Mariano's rise to greatness has been anything but ordinary. He's the guy...

A sexy sports superstar discovers his body isn't the only thing that needs healing in this newest Stardust, Texas novel from New York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde. With major league good looks and talent, Dallas Gunslingers relief pitcher Axel Richmond was living the good life. Even if the roar of the crowd could never distract him from the loss of his young son. But now with an injured shoulder and his career on the line, Axel is stuck recuperating...

An aging baseball player, faced with the breakup of a relationship with his girlfriend, makes the most important decision of his life during the course of his last game.

The baseball is an amazing plaything. We can grip it and hold it so many different ways, and even the slightest calibration can turn an ordinary pitch into a weapon to thwart the greatest hitters in the world. Each pitch has its own history, evolving through the decades as the masters pass it down to the next generation. From the earliest days of the game, when Candy Cummings dreamed up the curveball while flinging clamshells on a Brooklyn beach,...

JB Bernstein is a once-successful sports agent who may have to close his business. To save it, he comes up with an idea so radical it just might work. Setting off for Mumbai, JB stages a televised nationwide competition called "Million dollar arm" where two young finalists emerge as winners. JB brings them back to the US with a goal: get them signed as pitchers to a major league team. While the boys learn the game, they teach JB the meaning of teamwork...

Relates the stories of five outstanding baseball pitchers, from Walter Johnson to Nolan Ryan.

Seventh-grader Javon is the relief pitcher for his summer league baseball team and they are in the championship tournament--trouble is there is one player on the team they are playing that he cannot seem to get out.

While covering baseball's World Series between the Washington Nationals and the Boston Red Sox, teenage sports reporters Stevie and Susan Carol investigate a rookie pitcher whose evasive answers during an interview reveal more than a few contradictions in his life story.

Includes information on: Roy Halladay, Felix Hernandez, Tim Lincecum, Josh Johnson, Cliff Lee, Jon Lester, Mariano Rivera, Justin Verlander, CC Savathia, Jered Weaver, Clayton Kershaw, David Price, Ubaldo Jimenez, Adam Wainwright, Brian Wilson, Joakim Soria, Dan Haren, Zack Greinke, Matt Cain, Neftali Feliz, Stephen Strasburg, Chris Carpenter, Heath Bell, Aroldis Chapman, Jonathan Broxton.