Matt Christopher

Sylvester Coddmyer III, a poor but enthusiastic baseball player, becomes a phenomenal hitter after he meets a mysterious stranger resembling Babe Ruth who offers to help him improve his batting skills.

Pie Pennelli loves to play ice hockey but he has to deal with hand-me-down skates and the teasing of his teammates. Then his next-door neighbors find an antique hockey which they swear is magic and can predict all of Pie's teams move.

When his telepathic dog Harry is grounded for nipping another dog, Mike wonders how he'll ever make it through the baseball game without his advice and encouragement. Sequel to "The Dog That Pitched a No-Hitter."

As the captain of his little league baseball team, Jimmie Todd thinks he should be able to choose any position he wants. He wants to pitch, although the other players on the team would rather give that position to Paul Karoski, a left-hander with a talent for pitching strikeouts. But Jimmie wants a chance so badly that he takes the position for himself. It isn't long before his weak pitching sets the team on a losing streak that has everyone, especially,...

Mark, center for his middle school's soccer team the Scorpions, must cope with his parents' divorce and a teammate who holds a grudge against him.

Jimmie makes his teammates angry when he becomes captain of his baseball team and then selects himself as pitcher.

Twelve-year-old Cap Wadell wants to play on a "real" football team, but his middle school in a small Texas town does not have enough players--until his grandfather revives interest in the game of six-man football.

When a key player on the Grizzlies' baseball team is hit on the head by a ball while practicing with his friends, they must decide whether to keep his injury a secret even after he starts behaving strangely.

"From his college days as a backup quarterback at University of Michigan to his record-breaking number of winning seasons with the New England Patriots, this biography gives fans a firsthand look at the highs and lows of the superstar's life and career"--

Profiles every World Cup competition ever played while sharing related historical and cultural information, and also provides information on the Women's World Cup.