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62) Baseball
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Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Simple text and photographs introduce the sport of baseball.
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Pub. Date
2016.
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Author Jeff Passan examines the franchise lifeblood role of pitchers in Major League Baseball and the considerable vulnerability of pitching arms. Drawing on rare interviews with Daniel Hudson, Todd Coffey and Sandy Koufax this book provides insights into the impact of injuries on careers and teams.
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Ted Williams was the best hitter in baseball history. His batting average of .406 in 1941 has not been topped since, and no player who has hit more than five hundred home runs has a higher career batting average. Those totals would have been even higher if Williams had not left baseball for nearly five years in the prime of his career to serve as a Marine pilot in World War II and Korea. He hit home runs farther than any player before him, and traveled...
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Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 18
Description
This biography examines the life and career of one of Major League Baseball's biggest legends. At 30, Brooklyn-born L.A. Dodger Sandy Koufax walked away from baseball, accomplishing all he wanted to while playing the game he loved. Adored by fans and his fellow athletes, he left behind an incredible legacy--one that southpaw pitchers have tried to live up to for decades.
69) Jackie Robinson
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Story of the first African-American to play major-league baseball opening the door for other African-American professional athletes.
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"Seventeen-year-old Silver King dreams of becoming a working cowboy. His mother, however, has pushed him to be a baseball player--and King certainly has the arm to be a star pitcher. When the National League forms a team in Kansas City in 1886, both mother and son get their wishes"--
74) Screwball
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Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Description
The arrival of rookie Ron Kane, a solid all-around player, seems to have finally banished the curse that has gripped the Boston Red Sox for years, but the potential for a winning season is marred by a string of murders that seem to be stalking the team.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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Buck O’Neil once described him as “Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Tris Speaker rolled into one.” Among experts he is regarded as the best player in Negro Leagues history. During his prime he became a legend in Cuba and one of black America’s most popular figures. Yet even among serious sports fans, Oscar Charleston is virtually unknown today. In a long career spanning from 1915 to 1954, Charleston played against, managed, befriended, and occasionally...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Mamie "Peanut" Johnson had one dream: to play professional baseball. She was a talented player, but she wasn't welcome on the all-white Girls Pro Baseball League team due to the color of her skin. However, a greater opportunity came her way in 1953 when Johnson signed to play ball with the Negro Leagues' Indianoplis Clowns, becoming the only professional female pitcher to play on a men's team. During the three years she played with the team, her...
78) The perfect game
Pub. Date
2011
Description
After Cesar's major league career is cut short, he returns to his native Monterey, Mexico. Once back home, a group of impoverished baseball-loving kids recruit him to coach their ragtag team. Together, they beat the odds and overcome hardships and bigotry to compete in the 1957 Little League World Series.
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Babe Ruth was more than baseball's original superstar. For 85 years, he has remained the sport's reigning titan. He has been named Athlete of the Century more than once. But who was this large, loud, enigmatic man? Why is so little known about his childhood, his private life, and his inner thoughts? Based on newly discovered documents and interviews--including pages from Ruth's personal scrapbooks--this book traces Ruth's life from his bleak childhood...
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