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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"A Team Spirit Baseball edition featuring the Colorado Rockies that chronicles the history and accomplishments of the team. Includes access to the Team Spirit website which provides additional information, updates and photos"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
After the Civil War (18611865), the earliest seeds of professional baseball began to sprout. While racism was rampant, some early teams featured black and white players competing side by side. But by 1900, segregation forced African Americans to form their own teams. Black players traveled around the country on barnstorming tours, taking on all challengers. In 1920, baseball's Negro leagues started, and for more than three decades, they offered fans...
Author
Series
Legends volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Presents a history of America's pastime that discusses many of its most notable players, teams, rivalries, and moments, from Jackie Robinson's breaking of the color barrier to the home run race between Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire.
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers he became the fir st African American to play on a white Major League Baseball team. Read about how Robinson changed the face of baseball when he broke the color barrier and opened the door for the non-white players that followed.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Baseball Super Stats will take sports fans on a fun tour through the past and present of professional baseball through the lens of statistics. What are some of the greatest stats, and how are they used by fans and professionals. What does the future hold for baseball stats?
9) Teammates
Author
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes the racial prejudice experienced by Jackie Robinson when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers and became the first black player in Major League baseball and depicts the acceptance and support he received from his white teammate Pee Wee Reese.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Presents an illustrated biography of the man who broke baseball's color barrier and changed the way Americans viewed equality in sports.
"Jackie Robinson always loved sports, especially baseball. He could run, leap, and throw better than any other kid around. But he lived at a time when the rules weren't fair to African Americans: Even though Jackie was a great athlete, he wasn't allowed on the best teams just because of the color of his skin. Jackie...
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An illustrated biography of baseball fanatic Effa Manley, describing her childhood in Philadelphia, her career as a business manager, how she came to be the owner of the New Jersey baseball team, the Newark Eagles, and her induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
16) Lou Gehrig
Author
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography of the New York Yankee first baseman known as "The Iron Man" because he played in over 2000 consecutive games.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Welcome to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the All-Star Island! Students will explore sandy Caribbean beaches, tour San Felipe del Morro Castle, attend a Puerto Rico National Baseball Team game, and more as they learn about Puerto Rico
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands. In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed $50 from his father and created a company with a simple mission: import high-quality, low-cost athletic shoes from Japan. Selling...