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Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Explores Jackie Robinson's life story, including his early success as a versatile athlete, the difficulties he faced in an era of widespread prejudice and segregation, how he came to break pro baseballs color barrier, and how he used his fame to bring awareness to the civil rights movement.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Yogi Berra is one of the most popular former athletes in American history and the most quoted American since Abraham Lincoln. Part comedian, part feisty competitor, Berra is also the winningest player in baseball history, with fourteen pennants, ten World Series, and three MVPs. In this revelatory biography, Allen Barra presents Yogi's remarkable life as never seen before, from his childhood in "Dago Hill," the Italian-American neighborhood in St....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig. Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend - the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name. But as this definitive new biography makes clear, Gehrig's life was more complicated - and, perhaps, even more heroic - than anyone really knew. Drawing...
11) Baseball heroes
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Baseball Heroes is the first book in the middle grade nonfiction series Good Sports, about the inspiring life stories of major league athletes who have overcome obstacles in the course of their life and careers. Each book tells the stories of athletes who have encountered and overcome significant obstacles, and whose story exemplifies character and nerve in the face of adversity. Baseball Heroes highlights players who were among the first to break...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
A one-handed pitcher who became one of the select few to pitch a no-hitter in Major League Baseball explains how he rose above his disability to excel at the sport he loved in high school, college, and adulthood.
14) Ty Cobb
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
17) Andruw Jones
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Biography of Andruw Jones, the Caribbean baseball player who hit two home runs during his first world series.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Many of the baseball greats overcame huge challenges to be sports heroes-here are five inspiring stories of men who did just that. Baseball is considered America's pastime, but not all players grew up living the American dream. Babe Ruth, Jim Peirsall, Torii Hunter, Ron LeFlore, and Joe Torre sure didn't. Poverty, abuse, and addiction are a few of the issues they had to deal with as kids, but they turned their lives around to play the game they loved....
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on interviews with friends and family, as well as teammates and opponents, "New York Times"-bestselling author Leavy delivers the definitive account of one of the biggest talents and most tragic figures ever to play baseball--Mickey Mantle.
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