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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 1230L
Language
English
Description
Encompassing the extraordinary history of Major League Baseball's New York Mets, this photo-laden narrative underscores significant players, team accomplishments, and noteworthy moments that will stand out in young sports fans' minds.
11) New York Mets
Author
Publisher
[Creative Education]
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
A history of the baseball team which was created in New York in 1962 under the leadership of manager Casey Stengel after he left the Yankees.
12) So many ways to lose: the amazin' true story of the New York Mets, the best worst team in sports
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Mets lose when they should win. They win when they should lose. And when it comes to being the worst, no team in sports has ever done it better than the Mets. In So Many Ways to Lose, author and lifelong Mets fan Devin Gordon sifts through the detritus of Queens for a baseball history like no other. Remember the time the Mets lost an All-Star after he got charged by a wild boar? Or the time they blew a six-run ninth-inning lead at the peak...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Veteran sportswriter Bill Madden writes the definitive biography of a baseball and New York sports legend, Tom Seaver, voted into the Hall of Fame by the highest percentage vote ever at the time and still the most popular player in Mets history"--
One of the most talented and popular players in the history of baseball, Tom Seaver is one of only two pitchers with 300 wins, 3,000 strikeouts, and an ERA under 3.00. He was a three-time Cy Young award...
15) 108 stitches: loose threads, ripping yarns, and the darndest characters from my time in the game
Author
Publisher
St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This is New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated broadcaster Ron Darling's 108 baseball anecdotes that connect Americas game to the men who played it. In 108 Stitches , Ron Darling offers his own take on the "six degrees of separation" game and knits together a collection of wild, wise, and wistful stories reflecting the full arc of a life in and around our national pastime. Darling has played with or reported on just about everybody who...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Pitchers are the heart of baseball, and John Feinstein tells the story of the game today through one season and two great pitchers working in the crucible of the New York media market. Tom Glavine and Mike Mussina have seen it all, and both entered 2007 in search of individual milestones and one more shot at The World Series--Glavine with the Mets, Mussina five miles away with the Yankees. The two veterans experience very different seasons--one on...
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Two New York icons meet for one final time. Academy Award-winning documentary writer Mark Monroe chronicles the intersecting histories of the landmark Shea Stadium and the legendary performer Billy Joel. An engaging look at the highs and lows of the New York Mets and the music career of Joel. Monroe interweaves interviews with players and performers with exclusive concert footage from the goodbye performances in July 2008.
