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1) Calico Joe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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
Series
Publisher
Capstone Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
In rhyming text a little boy, home from a game, bids goodnight to all the sights and sounds of a baseball game.
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
58 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Includes photographs and fun-filled facts on some of baseball's most significant artifacts found in both private and public collections, including jerseys worn by Joe DiMaggio, the T206 Honus Wagner baseball card, and bats used by Babe Ruth and Shoeless Joe Jackson.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Able to Play shares the inspiring stories of four baseball players. Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown, Ron Santo, Jim Abbott, and Curtis Pride faced physical challenges other
players didn't have. With determination and guts, they didn't just overcome, they excelled. This book is a game-changing celebration of overcoming odds.
16) Baseball
Author
Publisher
Twenty First Century
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
64p.; color photos
Language
English
Description
Includes index. Describes how professional baseball teams prepare for games , analyze the games afterwards for imporvement, develop strategies, and build themselves through player selection.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having wandered away from her arguing family during a hike on New England's Appalachian Trail, a young girl discovers that she is lost in the menacing woods with only her personal stereo and the Red Sox game for comfort
19) Heat
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
220 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pitching prodigy Michael Arroyo is on the run from social services after being banned from playing Little League baseball because rival coaches doubt he is only twelve years old and he has no parents to offer them proof.