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1) Calico Joe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In this novel, the careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it is what happens off the field that makes this story a classic.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Michael Schell is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina and Director of the Biostatistics Core Facility at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is the author of Baseball's All-Time Best Sluggers: Adjusted Batting Performance from Strikeouts to Home Runs (Princeton) and has published more than 100 research articles on statistics and cancer.
Tony Gwynn is the greatest hitter in the history of baseball. That's the...
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
1989
Description
Halberstam's classic #1 bestseller about the magical summer when baseball's fiercest rivalry captured the nation's imagination, and changed the sport forever The summer of 1949: It was baseball's Golden Age and the year Joe DiMaggio's New York Yankees were locked in a soon-to-be classic battle with Ted Williams's Boston Red Sox for the American League pennant. As postwar America looked for a unifying moment, the greatest players in baseball history...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
You think humans are the only ones who enjoy America's national pastime? Grab your bat--the other kind--and your mitt, because it's a whole new ballgame when evening falls and bats come fluttering from the rafters to watch their all-stars compete. Get set to be transported to the right-side-up and upside-down world of bats at play, as imagined and illustrated by best-selling author-illustrator Brian Lies.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Howie Traveler never made it as a player-his one major league hit and .091 batting average attest to that. He was cursed with that worst of professional maladies, the ill fortune of almost. Now after years of struggling up the coaching ladder, Howie's finally been given his shot: as manager of the Cleveland Indians. But America's pastime has changed. Whether Howie can spot a small flaw in a batter's swing won't matter if he can't manage his superstar...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Molly Williams has had a difficult time. Her father died in a car accident; her mother has withdrawn into herself. Molly, however, wants to be known for something positive -- like joining the boys' baseball team. Over the course of a baseball season she learns to redefine her relationships with family, friends, and the things she loves.
Author
Series
Publisher
SportsZone an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This title explores everything a young reader would want to know about baseball, from home run sluggers to World Series heroes. The title also features informative sidebars, a glossary, and further resources. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing Company. Table of contents; Glossary of key words; Informative sidebars.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Formats
Description
Discusses the author's life and career, including his role as "Grandpa Rossy" on the Chicago Cubs 2016 championship-winning team.
In 2016, the Cubs ended a 108-year curse, winning the World Series in a history-making, seven-game series against the Cleveland Indians. One of the many storylines to Chicago's fairytale season was the late-career renaissance of David Ross, the 39-year-old catcher who had played back-up for 13 of his 15 pro seasons. Beyond...
Author
Series
Publisher
12-Story Library
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Learn what makes your favorite baseball team unique in The MLB Fan's Guide. Each book is split into 12 chapters covering the different facts, players, stories, and traditions that define the team.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Formats
Description
"Traces the ... story of Merl Eberly and his Clarinda A's baseball team, which he tended over the course of five decades, transforming them from a town team to a collegiate summer league powerhouse. Along with Ozzie Smith, future manager Bud Black, and star player Von Hayes, Merl developed scores of major league players (six of which are currently playing). In the process, Merl taught them to be men, insisting on hard work, integrity, and responsibility"--Dust...
14) Baseball
Author
Series
Publisher
Amicus
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"This search-and-find book invites emergent readers to look for new vocabulary words and pictures while giving simple facts about the fundamentals of baseball, including player positions, gear, and key terms"--
Author
Publisher
Sports Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
In a game that has been our national pastime since the 1850s, there have been countless changes, additions and adaptations to the rules of baseball. But while the sport has altered considerably in recent years, its essence is still deeply rooted in its early history.
Author
Description
"Posnanski writes of major moments that created legends, and of forgotten moments almost lost to time. It's Willie Mays's catch, Babe Ruth's called shot, and Kirk Gibson's limping home run; the slickest steals; the biggest bombs; and the most triumphant no-hitters. But these are also moments raw with the humanity of the game, the unheralded heroes, the mesmerizing mistakes drenched in pine tar, and every story, from the immortal to the obscure, is...
Author
Series
Publisher
12-Story Library
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Learn what makes your favorite baseball team unique in The MLB Fan's Guide. Each book is split into 12 chapters covering the different facts, players, stories, and traditions that define the team.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"The fascinating story of baseball's legendary "Ironmen, " two players from different eras who each achieved the coveted and sometimes confounding record of most consecutive games played. When Cal Ripken Jr. began his career with the Baltimore Orioles at age twenty-one, he had no idea he would someday beat the historic record of playing 2,130 games in a row, a record set fifty-six years before by the fabled "Iron Horse" of the New York Yankees, Lou...
20) Dino-baseball
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Meat-eating dinosaurs face plant-eating dinosaurs in a baseball game.
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