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Here�s the Guys Zone! Read about what it�s like to run the Iditarod, or be a baseball rookie, or win a gold medal in the Olympics.

Ball Don’t Lie by Matt De La Pena

Bat 6 by Virginia Euwer Wolff

The Boy Who Saved Baseball by John H. Ritter

The Contender by Robert Lipsyte

Crackbat by John Coy

Danger Zone by David Klass

Farm Team by Will Weaver

Gold Dust by Chris Lynch

Hard Ball by Will Weaver

Hoop Dreams by Ben Joravsky

Hoops by Walter Dean Myers

Iceman by Chris Lynch

In Lane Three, Alex Archer by Tessa Duder

Iron Duke by John Tunis

Ironman by Chris Crutcher

The Moves Make the Man by Bruce Brooks

On the Devil’s Court by Carl Deuker

Painting the Black by Carl Deuker

Rookie of the Year by John Tunis

Roughnecks by Thomas Cohran

Runner by Carl Deuker

The Runner by Cynthia Voigt

Running Loose by Chris Crutcher

Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella

Slam by Walter Dean Myers

Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher

Stotan! by Chris Crutcher

Taking Sides by Gary Soto

Tangerine by Edward Bloor

Travel Team by Mike Lupica

Vision Quest by Terry Davis

Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher

Winterdance: the Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod by Gary Paulsen

Wrestling Sturbridge by Rich Wallace