Guide to Juvenile Baseball Books: N

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A pleasant story, showing the strong assimilating power of sport. For another change on this theme, see Cretan's All Except Sammy.


Mixes a tightly-woven plot with fine verisimilar observations of small-town Eastern life.


One of a series where the Hatford brothers engage the Malloy sisters in the mildest of neighborly feuds. There is plenty of baseball action, though it becomes subordinate to subplots about a class play and a garage sale with a hidden secret.


Inspired by a true story of a young cancer patient befriended by Yankee second baseman Robinson Cano, this picture book elaborates young "Michael Steel"'s tale and gives it a magical connection to the story of Lou Gehrig.