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August 9, 2021

The Kid Who Only Hit Homers, NOW STREAMING ON AMAZON PRIME, BUY YOUR COPY NOW

Watch the trailer now! Former Nickelodeon President Launches MiMO Studio For Children’s Programming Brian Leak11:00 am Hollywood & Entertainment Brian is an entertainment journalist and photographer living in northern California.

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December 5, 2016

Extreme Team #7, Wild Ride

Knowing that the mountain trails are unsafe for bicycles due to fallen trees and other obstacles, Jonas helps organize a clean-up crew in early spring, but when he hears someone

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December 5, 2016

Supercharged Infield

Penny Farrell is surprised by the sudden change in her teammates on the Hawks softball team. They are playing better that Penny ever thought possible! Stranger still, this new strength

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December 5, 2016

Wild Pitch

Eddie doesn't like the idea of girls playing baseball in his league, but when one of his pitches injures a girl, he rethinks his attitudes.

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December 4, 2016

The Team That Stopped Moving

Dick Farrar was glum.  The baseball team he had helped organize couldn't seem to get a winning combination together.  Then one day, in the midst of an important play, something

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December 4, 2016

Glue Fingers

Billy Joe was a fine football player.  His brother told him he could catch a pass just as if he had glue on his fingers.  But Billy Joe wouldn't play

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December 4, 2016

Jinx Glove

Chip really wanted a new glove.  The one he owned had once belonged to his father, and it was okay, but Chip couldn't get the idea of a new one

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December 4, 2016

Mystery Coach

When their coach becomes ill and their baseball team starts falling apart, several of the Blazers begin receiving coaching tips from an anonymous phone caller.

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November 21, 2016

Zero’s Slider; A Peach Street Mudders Story

While trying to ask Uncle Pete to coach for the Peach Street Mudders, Zero discovers that he can throw a slider when there's a big bandage on his injured thumb.

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November 20, 2016

Favor for a Ghost

When the ghost of his friend Billy returns to beg him to move the grave of his former dog next to his own, Lenny tries to find a way to

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November 20, 2016

The Return of the Headless Horseman

Two boys on a fishing expedition are surprised by a headless horseman, believed to be the ghost of a nineteenth-century horse thief.  Enjoy the Matt Christopher adventure classic

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November 20, 2016

Devil Pony

A Matt Christopher Adventure Classic "He's everything I dreamed he'd be!" exclaimed Stu Bancroft when he saw Midnight, the horse he and his sister Sally had been promised when the

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November 20, 2016

Earthquake

The only thought on Jeff Belno's mind is escape. Weeks ago, when he begged his parents to let him take his horse Red with him to camp, maybe somehow Jeff

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November 20, 2016

Drag-Strip Racer

Ken has always dreamed of becoming a drag-strip racer, an hen he inherits a super car, Li'l ed, from his uncle, he thinks his dream will come true.  However, things

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November 20, 2016

Jackrabbit Goalie

Pepper Pride was new to town and wanted to make friends fast.  So when some local kids told him they needed a goalie for their soccer team, he lied and

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November 20, 2016

Soccer Halfback

Jabber Morris has his heart set on playing soccer, but his family is pressuring him to play football. Tension at home builds when Jabber's brother suspects him of stealing. Now

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November 18, 2016

Front Court Hex

What would you do if  warlock put a hex on you?  Jerry Steele couldn't understand why he had suddenly turned into such a bumbler on the basketball court.  Last year

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November 17, 2016

The Dog That Called the Signals

Mike suddenly becomes starting quarterback for his team, and he's got a problem.  Everything is fine as long as the coach gives him the plays from the bench, but what

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November 13, 2016

Tackle without a Team

After leading the Greyhawks to victory one afternoon, right tackle Scott Kramer is shattered when marijuana is discovered in his duffel bag.  Scott has never touched marijuana - he doesn't

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November 9, 2016

The Counterfeit Tackle

Buzz and Corky are identical twins, but not very much alike. Corky, outgoing and popular, plays tackle on the Otters' football team. Buzz, the school chess champion, is quiet and

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August 31, 2016

The Winning Stroke

When Jerry Grayson injures his leg in a sandlot baseball game, he's out for the season.  He begins rehabilitation program in his school's pool under the watchful eye of the

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August 9, 2016

Olympic Dream

Doug Cannon is a video whiz, a decent hockey goalie - and overweight.  He is often the butt of his friends' jokes, but he tries not to let it get

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August 9, 2016

The Twenty-one Mile Swim

Joey Vass wasn't a swimmer, but since his family bought a house on the shore of a lake, he decided he'd better learn how.  Everything is going along fine until

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March 29, 2016

Takedown

When Sean Bailor, an angry young wrestler, loses his perspective on what he is fighting for, he takes his aggressions out on his family and wrestling nemesis, until a friendly

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March 23, 2016

The Pigeon with the Tennis Elbow

Kevin O'Toole, playing in a tennis tournament, meets a talking pigeon who turns out to be his great uncle and gives him tennis tips.

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May 8, 2015

Underdercover Tailback

Parker Nolan is a notorious liar, so why should his Kudzu teammates believe him when he claims he saw someone photographing football plays from the coach's playbook?They shrug it off

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May 8, 2015

Power Play

Rabbit was a fair basketball player.  He sank his share of baskets, but he knew that he missed too many times, and he really hated it when the fans started

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May 8, 2015

Break for the Basket

It was funny how Emmett got on the Penguin basketball team.  He was shooting at the basket in his own back yard when Robin Hood and some of the other

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May 8, 2015

Basketball Sparkplug

Kim wanted to play basketball.  He was a good player, too.  But sometimes he didn't keep his mind on the game very well, and sometimes he made mistakes that disgusted

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May 8, 2015

Two Strikes On Johnny

Johnny Doane's brother Michael was blind.  Yet he loved to go with Johnny to the games the Cardinals played.  Johnny was the Cardinals' center fielder, and Michael thought he was

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