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Author
Publisher
Collier Books
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
"You Know me Al" is a classic of baseball--the game and the community. Jack Keefe, one of literature's greatest characters, is talented, brash, and conceited. Self-assured and imperceptive, impervious to both advice and sarcasm, Keefe rises to the heights, but his inability to learn makes for his undoing. Through a series of letters from this bush-league pitcher to his not-quite-anonymous friend Al, Lardner maintains a balance between the funny and...
42) Roberto Clemente
Author
Series
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
"Meet Puerto Rican Baseball Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente-once just a kid from Carolina, Puerto Rico, who loved to play baseball on the streets of his hometown with friends and family. As a right fielder, Roberto played eighteen seasons with Major League Baseball, but his life was tragically cut short when a plane he chartered to bring earthquake relief supplies to Nicaragua crashed. The first Latin American player to be inducted into the National...
45) Jackie Robinson
Author
Series
Publisher
Britannica Digital Learning
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
50) Back in the game
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When former pitcher Rowdy Blanton hires Breeanne Carlyle to ghostwrite his memoir about his baseball career, she makes him want to be a better man, while she is drawn to him despite his bad boy reputation.
53) Jackie Robinson
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the first African American to break the color barrier in major league baseball.
55) Jackie Robinson
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Brief text chronicles the life of the Hall of Fame baseball player who, in 1947, became the first African American to play for a major league team.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
"Examines Curt Flood's often troubled personal life and explores his possible motives for suing Major League Baseball in 1970. For challenging baseball's reserve system, which he likened to bondage, the St. Louis Cardinals center fielder in time was lionized. But this recognition came at great personal expense"--Provided by publisher.
