The Best Baseball Books for Kids

A set of rhyming riddles turns bats, gloves, bases, and uniforms into a first baseball guessing game.

A boy who cannot hit a baseball spots a fireball headed for town and decides to build the biggest batter anyone has ever seen.

One boy attends games with both grandfathers and discovers that baseball looks, sounds, and tastes different in Japan and America.

A deaf major-league player needs a way to follow the umpire’s calls, so the game becomes visible in a new way.

The new catcher only wants to learn the lineup, but first base belongs to Who and nobody will give him a straight answer.

Twelve brothers in one New Jersey family have enough players for a full lineup—and keep the team together for decades.

Jackie Robinson takes the field under relentless pressure, and a teammate decides that standing beside him must be public.

A girl with a fierce throwing arm wants a place at baseball camp and is not interested in being redirected to a quieter game.

Mudville is two runs down with two outs in the ninth, but mighty Casey is finally walking to the plate.

A twelve-year-old pitcher throws hard enough to reach the Little League World Series—and so hard that another coach challenges his age.

Nine innings follow one Brooklyn family through nine generations, with a baseball passing from story to story.

An eleven-year-old knuckleball pitcher writes to a major leaguer for advice, then earns a place on a real team of her own.

One game will decide whether a small California town keeps its ballfield, and the new shortstop may know a vanished legend’s secret.

Behind the barbed wire of a wartime incarceration camp, families clear desert ground and build a baseball field.

Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, and the teams shut out of the majors built leagues and legends of their own.