A boy becomes a phenomenal baseball player one summer when a mysterious stranger resembling Babe Ruth befriends him.

After a tragic airplane crash that claims the lives of most of his family, sixteen-year-old Tate goes to live with his wealthy great-grandfather and his adopted black great-aunt Vidalia and he finds unexpected solace in the stories of her childhood spent travelling with a Depression-era Negro baseball team.

Jack the mischievous rabbit serves as bat boy and Rex the dog helps in left field during a baseball game between the Lady City Ladies and the Big City Brats.

George is the catcher for the school baseball team, but when they play their archrivals in the championship game, will a magical super burp lead the Sugarman Sea Monkeys to victory or defeat?

A Japanese American boy learns to play baseball when he and his family are forced to live in an internment camp during World War II, and his ability to play helps him after the war is over.