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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville nine that day; the score stood four to two with but one inning more to play." Thus begins one of the most famous poems in American history: Ernest L. Thayer's Casey at the Bat. When the powerful Mudville baseball team enters the ninth inning of their game behind by two runs, things seem pretty grim. And when the first two batters make outs, it looks like their best player, the mighty Casey, won't even...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Language
English
Description
Aging Detroit Tigers pitcher Billy Chapel has more than a possible trade to worry about--his on-again, off-again girlfriend Jane is leaving him. During what may be the last game of his career, he reminisces about Jane and his life in baseball.
3) The Sporting news selects baseball's 100 greatest players: a celebration of the 20th century's best
Author
Publisher
Sporting News Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
4) The natural
Author
Publisher
Perennial Classics
Pub. Date
2000, c1952
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Gifted baseball player Roy Hobbs, his career derailed by a youthful indiscretion, makes a stunning comeback in later life, but finds himself still struggling against the temptations that would bring him to ruin.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a small town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her house. Everyone in town, including her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and she doesn't correct them. In New York, Dean Tenney, former major-league pitcher and Andy's childhood friend, is struggling with a case of the "yips": he can't throw straight anymore, and he can't figure out why. An invitation from Andy to stay in Maine for a few months...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a brief biography of legendary baseball player for the old Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson, who, in 1947, became the first African-American to play in major league baseball.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From picking coffee in the Dominican Republic to reaching icon status as a Major League pitcher in America, here is the story of baseball's most colorful player told in his own words Bartolo Colón -- also known as Big Sexy -- is a baseball icon and one of the most beloved players to ever play the game. In a career spanning 21 years, Colón has won the Cy Young Award and won more games than any other Latin American-born pitcher. But more importantly,...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
History was made in 1947, when Jackie Robinson broke the professional baseball race barrier to become the first African American MLB player of the modern era. 42 tells the life story of Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography about Lizzie Murphy, the first woman to play in a major league exhibition game and the first person to play on both the New England and American leagues' all-star teams"--
16) Eight men out
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001, c1988
Language
English
Description
At the 1919 World Series, eight Chicago White Sox players, annoyed at management, conspire with gamblers to make sure the team does not win.
17) Blockade Billy
Author
Publisher
Cemetery Dance
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The character of George Granny Grantham recounts the story of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely, who was called in to fill a spot for the New Jersey Titans in the spring of 1957 and exhibited tenacity in the game as well as some disturbing eccentricities.
Author
Publisher
Triumph Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A heartfelt portrait of Hank Aaron, featuring nearly 40 years of stories plus never-before-told insights from the home run king
When journalist Terence Moore was 12 years old, he treasured his poster of Henry Aaron. Years later, Aaron would sign it for him: "Best wishes to Terry." Later still, Moore would be named an honorary pall bearer at the home run king's funeral, staying up late into the night with Aaron's widow, Billye, to get the obituary...
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