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1) Swindle
Author
Series
Lexile Measure
710L
Summary
After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palomino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker.
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 5
Pub. Date
2003
Lexile Measure
630L
Summary
When Joe travels back in time to 1944, he meets the Milwaukee Chicks, one of the only all-female professional baseball teams in the history of the game.
4) Satch & me
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 7
Lexile Measure
660L
Summary
Joe uses his ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards to take his coach Flip with him to find out whether Satchel Paige really was the fastest pitcher ever.
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 3
Pub. Date
2000
Lexile Measure
600L
Summary
With their ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe and his father have the opportunity to find out whether Babe Ruth really did call his shot when he hit that homerun in the third game of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs.
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 2
Pub. Date
[1999]
Lexile Measure
670L
Formats
Summary
With his ability to travel through time by using baseball cards, Joe goes back to 1947 to meet Jackie Robinson, turning into a black boy in the process. Joe Stoshack has really done it this time. When a pitcher insults his Polish heritage, Joe flings his bat and prompts an on-field brawl that ends in a two-team pileup. He's suspended from Little League ... indefinitely. At school, his teacher assigns an oral report for Black History Month. The topic?...
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 4
Pub. Date
Ã2002
Lexile Measure
600L
Summary
Joe Stoshack travels back to 1919, where he meets Shoeless Joe Jackson and tries to prevent the fixing of the World Series in which Jackson was wrongly implicated.
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 6
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile Measure
680L
Summary
With his ability to travel through time using baseball cards and photographs, thirteen-year-old Joe and his mother go back to 1863 to ask Abner Doubleday whether he invented baseball, but instead find themselves in the middle of the Battle of Gettysburg.