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(0)Glenn Stout
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Not very long ago, many people said girls and women were too weak and delicate to play sports.
Fortunately, a lot of girls didn't listen. Trudy Ederle, Louise Stokes, Tidye Pickett, Julie Krone and Danica Patrick sure didn't. Trudy Ederle swam the English Channel, Louise Stokes and Tidye Pickett made it into the Olympics running track, Julie Krone became jockey, and Danica Patrick decided to drive Indie cars. Yes, She Can! tells the inspiring stories...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Baseball is a great sport, but not all players had the home life as kids that nurtured their talent. Babe Ruth, Jim Peirsall, Torii Hunter, Ron LeFlore, and Joe Torre dealt with poverty, abuse, and addiction when young, and had to turn their lives around to play the game they loved. A moving look at the lives of these four great players.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
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 did not have. With determination and guts, they didn't just overcome; they excelled. This book is a game-changing celebration of overcoming odds.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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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
Language
English
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Description
David Halberstam was a distinguished journalist and historian of American politics. He was also a sports writer. Everything They Had brings together for the first time his articles from newspapers and magazines, a wide-ranging collection edited by Glenn Stout, selected over the full scope of Halberstam's five decades as one of America's most honored journalists. These are dazzling portraits of some of the most compelling sports figures of our era,...
8) Babe Ruth
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The complete story surrounding the most famous and significant player transaction in professional sports The sale of Babe Ruth by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees in 1919 is one of the pivotal moments in baseball history, changing the fortunes of two of baseball's most storied franchises, and helping to create the legend of the greatest player the game has ever known. More than a simple transaction, the sale resulted in a deal that created...
10) Michael Jordan
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and basketball career of the high-scoring player with the Chicago Bulls, who made a brief attempt to play minor league baseball in 1994.
11) Nine months at Ground Zero: the story of the brotherhood of workers who took on a job like no other
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Sandpiper/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Four world-class athletes. Four stories of bravery and self-sacrifice. They put their careers on hold and the country first. These men were athletes, soldiers, and American heroes.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Co
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Seattle Mariners hitting and fielding star who won the MVP and Rookie of the Year Award in 2001 and became the first successful Japanese player in the Major Leagues.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A gift for every fan: The definitive narrative history of the New England Patriots, illustrated with more than 200 photographs and including original sidebars and essays by Patriots chroniclers Leigh Montville, Upton Bell, Howard Bryant, Lesley Visser, and more"--