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4) Mookie Betts
Author
Series
Publisher
FLY!,, an imprint of Abdo Zoom
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Introduces readers to the life and career of baseball star Mookie Betts"
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"We can all be heroes" is the message entertainingly told in this New York Times Bestselling picture-book biography series, with this title focusing on groundbreaking baseball player, Jackie Robinson (Cover may vary)
Jackie Robinson always loved sports, especially baseball. But he lived at a time before the Civil Rights Movement, when the rules weren't fair to African Americans. Even though Jackie was a great athlete,...
Jackie Robinson always loved sports, especially baseball. But he lived at a time before the Civil Rights Movement, when the rules weren't fair to African Americans. Even though Jackie was a great athlete,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xi, 290 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Pete Rose was a legend on the field. As baseball's Hit King, he shattered a number of hitting records that may never be broken. And during the 1970s, he was the leader of the Big Red Machine, the Cincinnati Reds teams that dominated the game. But he's also the greatest player who may never make the Hall of Fame because of his lifetime ban from the sport. Perhaps no other athlete's story is so representative of the triumphs and tragedies of our national...
13) Deion Sanders
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of the colorful and hard-working Florida football player who became known as Neion Deion.
14) Cal Ripken, Jr
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
63 P. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Baltimore Orioles' shortstop who earned the nickname Iron Man in 1995 when he broke Lou Gehrig's record for most consecutive games played.
Author
Publisher
Blue River Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Roberto Clemente became a baseball icon because of his talent and compassion, and how he overcame prejudices. He was drafted from Puerto Rico, where he spoke Spanish, when he was just eighteen. At first fans laughed at his Spanish accent and some even disliked him for the color of his skin. Roberto worked hard to prove his critics wrong and improve his baseball skills. He became one of the game's greatest hitters while he played for the Pittsburgh...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offers a look at the professional accomplishments and personal struggles of the noted pitcher, including the discrimination he experienced as one of the only Jews in the game and the injury that caused him to retire at the peak of his career.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
50 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Readers will get to know more about #99, aka the home run hero, on the New York Yankees, as they learn about his record-breaking career and how he became the MLB star he is today.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and accomplishments of the baseball player who became the first African American to play in the major leagues and who led the Brooklyn Dodgers to six National League pennants and one World Series championship.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the remarkable story of Larry Doby, the first Black baseball player in the American League, an unsung hero who in 1947 signed with the Cleveland Indians and went on to set amazing records that rendered him a seven-time All Star and launched him into the Hall of Fame.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"While most athletes excel in just one sport, Jim Thorpe was different. Born in Oklahoma in 1887, he played both professional football and baseball, and ran track and field. Jim was not only a sports icon but also a trailblazer. Raised as part of the Sac and Fox tribal nation, he was the first Native American person to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States. And although his personal life was not always as successful as his career, Jim remains...
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