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21) A baseball story
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Jordan is excited about his baseball game, the first one of the season.
24) Blockade Billy
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"Even the most die-hard baseball fans don't know the true story of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first--and only--player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game's history. Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional...
25) Pressure play
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Travis, less obsessed with baseball than his fellow team members, tries to balance his playing with his hobby of horror videos and starts receiving anonymous threats warning him to spend more time on baseball.
28) Fenway fever
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Twelve-year-old Alfredo "Stats" Pagano and Boston Red Sox pitcher Billee Orbitt work together to break a potential curse at Fenway Park.
29) The natural
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Gifted baseball player Roy Hobbs, his career derailed by a youthful indiscretion, makes a stunning comeback in later life, but finds himself still struggling against the temptations that would bring him to ruin.
32) High heat
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A new pitcher has joined the team. Rumors fly that his dad made him have elective elbow reconstruction surgery (known as Tommy John surgery in baseball) two years earlier. His stuff is electric, but he's also seriously wild. When a teammate ends up with a concussion after getting hit with a fastball in practice, the new guy is persona-non-grata in the clubhouse, but when the team goes deep into extra innings in a championship and theres nobody left...
33) Power hitter
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A year ago, one of the teams ace pitchers suffered a broken jaw that may have been caused by the trampoline effect of the ball off an aluminum bat. Now, while they practice before the next season, the team discovers that it will play in a wooden bat tournament instead of one that allows aluminum bats. Ambitious power hitter Sammy Perez, who relies on the pop and big sweet spot of an aluminum bat, is terrified by the switch and is tempted by PEDs in...
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"Ted Fullilove, aka Mr. Peanut, is not like other Ivy League grads. He shares an apartment with Goldberg, his beloved battery-operated fish, sleeps on a bed littered with yellow legal pads penned with what he hopes will be the next great American novel, and spends the waning malaise-filled days of the Carter administration at Yankee Stadium, waxing poetic while slinging peanuts to pay the rent. When Ted hears the news that his estranged father, Marty,...
36) Dino-baseball
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Meat-eating dinosaurs face plant-eating dinosaurs in a baseball game.
37) Double play
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When New York Yankee James "JY" Yager tries to show that he can still hit in the majors without the help of twelve-year-old Jalen's baseball genius, Jalen focuses on his own baseball career as he tries to carve out a spot with the Rockton Rockets.
39) Outfield outcast
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Malcolm is used to being the star first-baseman of his middle school team, but this year he has serious competition from a former benchwarmer, so he finds himself stuck in the outfield--and having to learn to put the team first.