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April has arrived, and with it, baseball and softball season. Lfleft fielder fields the ball in the most secure way possible, preferably the same way an. This is one of many bestselling sports fiction reads by professional sportswriter mike lupica. Showing 114 of 14 book results for softballfiction sort by. Summertime sadness, playing softball, and getting caught in boy drama. Ghost is the first book in a series of sportsthemed novels by an excellent middlegrade author. Fastpitch softball books in paperback and amazon kindle. Softball fiction books save now on titles like how to play softball for girls, how to play softball for girls, and other softball fiction books. Score a book s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. There is the big book of who basketball and the big book of who allstars. Raisa kumar has been playing softball for years, and thanks to the support and encouragement of her team, the silver stars, shes one of the best pitchers in. After trying out a couple of sports, she lands a spot on her schools softball team but to connect with the ball, she has to overcome her. We personally assess every books quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures.
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