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1) Softball
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Let's play softball! Through large, full-color action photographs and simple text, Softball introduces beginning readers to basic rules of the sport and encourages them to participate.
A labeled diagram helps readers identify the parts of a softball field, and a picture glossary reinforces new vocabulary. Softball also features reading tips for teachers and parents, a table of contents, and an index.
Softball is part of Jump!'s I Love Sports series....
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 20
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When she sees how much her little brother and young stepbrother and stepsister want to play softball, thirteen-year-old Kristy starts her own team, which makes up in spirit what it lacks in skill.
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My weirder-est school volume 10
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A.J.'s class is going head-to-head against Dirk School in a charity softball game. The losing team must clean the winning school's toilet with a toothbrush! Mr. Ott, retired baseball pro, intends to lead Ella Mentry School to victory, but will his weird tactics actually make the team lose?
4) Heroine
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month! A captivating and powerful exploration of the opioid crisis-the deadliest drug epidemic in American history-through the eyes of a college-bound softball star. Edgar Award-winning author Mindy McGinnis delivers a visceral and necessary novel about addiction, family, friendship, and hope. When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a...
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Seventh-grader Bea is the star short stop on her softball team, which is going to the league championship, but her world has just been turned upside down by the news that her father has been suspended from his law practice because he used some of his clients' money to pay bills; worse the news has been spread by another lawyer online, and that lawyer happens to be the father of Bea's almost boyfriend, Xander; now her fielding skills are slipping,...
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Critter club volume 18
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When Ellie joins a softball team, she quickly realizes that the sport is harder than it looks! Is she meant only for the stage, not the field? And what happens when Ellie goes searching in the woods near the field for a stray ball and finds an injured baby deer?
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Cupcake diaries volume 5
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Katie's Cupcake Club friends all have other activities besides making cupcakes. Mia and Alexis are on the soccer team and Emma plays the flute. Katie sets out to find her extracurricular niche and soon she's dribbling, passing, and catching in an effort to find the right sport for her. Sure Katie can whip up a great cupcake but can she cook on the field too? When Katie tries out and makes the softball team it's batter up . . . but instead of swinging...
11) Fast pitch
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"Shenice Lockwood dreams of leading the Fulton Firebirds to the U12 softball regional championship. But Shenice's focus gets shaken when her great-uncle Jack reveals that a career-ending-and family-name-ruining-crime may have been a setup. It's up to Shenice to discover the truth about her family's past-and fast-before secrets take the Firebirds out of the game forever"--Provided by publisher.
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A scientific and logical approach to the least understood and mastered skill in fastpitch softball. This book takes the reader from the basics of pitching a ball to understanding the more advanced skills required to play at the highest levels. The author, a clinician, coach, and instructor for nearly three decades approaches pitching from the mental, physical and scientific truths that make a ball go fast, move and hit a target. Whether the pitcher...
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This survival guide is written for a single purpose: to help both you and your daughter be winners in softball. The tips and suggestions, varying from the practical to the emotional--safety, nutrition, sports equipment, team drama, mental toughness, dealing with dad--will help you get the most from your daughter's softball playing experience. And that will help your daughter get the most out of her softball experience. The two are closely tied together....
17) Hey, Blue!
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Chris A. Stevens, an award-winning journalist from Michigan, tells the interesting true tale of what it's like being a youth and high school softball umpire. But it's more than just a sports book. The book also talks about relationships, dealing with people, handling conflict, self-awareness and the author coping with serious adversity in his life..and his hope for a brighter future. Stevens details face-to-face encounters with angry coaches, uplifting...
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An instructional booklet to learn how to become a homerun hitter or power hitter in slow-pitch softball. There are ten fundamental rules that have proven to work. These ten fundamental rules are explained thoroughly and when practiced and applied help a player become a power hitter. This booklet is for any age, even the beginner who wants to learn good, sound batting techniques as they learn the game.
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The inspirational roots of college softball's national championship and its 43 years of explosive growth are chronicled in this unique, 296-page book, A Series of Their Own: The History of the Women's College World Series. The book includes narratives on each of the annual tournaments from 1969-2012 within the context of the changing landscape of women's collegiate sports. To write this story, the authors drew on their backgrounds writing about and...
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