Playing Baseball

A Picture Book of Jackie Robinson

Author: David A. Adler
Illustrator: Robert Casilla
Publisher: Holiday House
Age Range: 4 to 8

Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII

Author: Marissa Moss
Illustrator: Yuko Shimizu
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers
Age Range: 6 to 10

Baseball Hour

Author: Carol Nevius
Illustrator: Bill Thomson
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Age Range: 4 to 8

Baseball Saved Us

Author: Ken Mochizuki
Illustrator: Dom Lee
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Age Range: 6 to 11

Brothers at Bat: The True Story of an Amazing All-Brother Baseball Team

Author: Audrey Vernick
Illustrator: Steven Salerno
Publisher: Clarion Books
Age Range: 4 to 8

Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888

Author: Ernest L. Thayer
Illustrator: C.F. Payne
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Age Range: 4 to 8

Catching the Moon: The Story of a Young Girl’s Baseball Dream

Author: Crystal Hubbard
Illustrator: Randy Duburke
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Age Range: 6 to 10

Coming Home: A Story of Josh Gibson, Baseball’s Greatest Home Run Hitter

Author: Nanette Mellage, Ying-Hwa Husau
Illustrator: Cornelius Van Wright
Publisher: Troll Communications
Age Range: 4 to 8

Dirt on Their Skirts: The Story of the Young Women Who Won the World Championship

Author: Doreen Rappaport, Lyndall Callan
Illustrator: E.B. Lewis
Publisher: Dial Books
Age Range: 4 to 8

Froggy Plays T-Ball (Froggy)

Author: Jonathan London
Illustrator: Frank Remkiewicz
Publisher: Puffin Books
Age Range: 3 to 5

Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings

Author: Deborah Hopkinson
Illustrator: Terry Widener
Publisher: Aladdin
Age Range: 5 to 8

Goodnight Baseball (Sports Illustrated Kids Bedtime Books)

Author: Michael Dahl
Illustrator: Christina E. Forshay
Publisher: Capstone Books
Age Range: 4 to 7

Henry Aaron’s Dream

Author: Matt Tavares
Illustrator: Matt Tavares
Publisher: Candlewick
Age Range: 4 to 8

Home Run: The Story of Babe Ruth

Author: Robert Burleigh
Illustrator: Mike Wimmer
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Age Range: 5 to 9

How Georgie Radbourn Saved Baseball

Author: David Shannon
Illustrator: David Shannon
Publisher: Scholastic
Age Range: 7 to 11

I Got It!

Author: David Wiesner
Illustrator: David Wiesner
Publisher: Clarion Books
Age Range: 5 to 9

Just Like Josh Gibson

Author: Angela Johnson
Illustrator: Beth Peck
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Age Range: 5 to 9

Let Them Play (True Story)

Author: Margot Theis Raven
Illustrator: Chris Ellison
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Age Range: 6 to 9

Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man

Author: David A. Adler
Illustrator: Terry Widener
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Age Range: 5 to 9

Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer

Author: Bill Wise
Illustrator: Bill Farnsworth
Publisher: Lee & Low Books
Age Range: 6 to 10

Mama Played Baseball

Author: David A. Adler
Illustrator: Chris O’Leary
Publisher: Harcourt/Gulliver Books
Age Range: 5 to 8

Matzoh Ball: A Passover Story

Author: Mindy Avra Portnoy
Illustrator: Katherine Janus Kahn
Publisher: Kar-Ben Publishing
Age Range: 5 to 9

Mudball

Author: Matt Tavares
Illustrator: Matt Tavares
Publisher: Candlewick
Age Range: 6 to 9

Nick Plays Baseball

Author: Rachel Isadora
Illustrator: Ranchel Isadora
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Book
Age Range: 5 to 9

Oliver’s Game (Tavares Baseball Books)

Author: Matt Tavares
Illustrator: Matt Tavares
Publisher: Candlewick
Age Range: 6 to 9

Players in Pigtails

Author: Shana Corey
Illustrator: Rebecca Gibbon
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Age Range: 4 to 8

Queen of the Diamond: The Lizzie Murphy Story

Author: Emily Arnold McCully
Illustrator: Emily Arnold McCully
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Age Range: 5 to 8

Randy Riley’s Really Big Hit

Author: Chris Van Dusen
Illustrator: Chris Van Dusen
Publisher: Candlewick
Age Range: 4 to 8

She Loved Baseball: The Effa Manley Story

Author: Audrey Vernick
Illustrator: Don Tate
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Age Range: 4 to 8

Stealing Home: Jackie Robinson: Against the Odds

Author: Robert Burleigh
Illustrator: Mike Wimmer
Publisher: Paula Wiseman Books/Simon & Schuster
Age Range: 6 to 9

Take Me Out to the Ballgame

Author: Jack Norworth
Illustrator: Alec Gillman
Publisher: Four Winds
Age Range: 4 to 8

Take Me Out to the Yakyu

Author: Aaron Meshon
Illustrator: Aaron Meshon
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Age Range: 4 to 8

Teammates

Author: Peter Golenbock
Illustrator: Paul Bacon
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Age Range: 4 to 7

The Babe & I

Author: David A. Adler
Illustrator: Terry Widener
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books
Age Range: 5 to 9

The Bat Boy and His Violin

Author: Gavin Curtis
Illustrator: E.B. Lewis
Publisher: Aladdin
Age Range: 4 to 8

The Kid from Diamond Street: The Extraordinary Story of Baseball Legend Edith Houghton

Author: Audrey Vernick
Illustrator: Steven Salerno
Publisher: Clarion Books
Age Range: 4 to 7

The Legend of the Curse of the Bambino

Author: Dan Shaughnessy
Illustrator: C.F. Payne
Publisher: Paula Wiseman Books/Simon & Schuster
Age Range: 4 to 8

The William Hoy Story: How a Deaf Baseball Player Changed the Game

Author: Nancy Churnin
Illustrator: Jez Tura
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Age Range: 4 to 8

Watch Me Throw the Ball! (An Elephant and Piggie Book)

Author: Mo Willems
Illustrator: Mo Willems
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Age Range: 4 to 8

We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball

Author: Kadir Nelson
Illustrator: Kadir Nelson
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Age Range: 8 to 12

Who’s on First? (Pop Classics)

Author: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
Illustrator: John Martz
Publisher: Quirk Books
Age Range: 6 to 9

You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?!

Author: Jonah Winter
Illustrator: Andre Carrilho
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
Age Range: 4 to 8

You Never Heard of Willie Mays?!

Author: Jonah Winter
Illustrator: Terry Widener
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
Age Range: 4 to 8

Zachary’s Ball (Tavares Baseball Books)

Author: Matt Tavares
Illustrator: Matt Tavares
Publisher: Candlewick
Age Range: 6 to 9