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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
The Story of the Negro Leagues covers the history of the Negro Leagues, their great pitchers and hitters, and the era of integration with Major League Baseball. Readers will learn the history of the Negro leagues beginning with baseball's beginnings with Abner Doubleday, to the first Negro League game between the Henson Base Ball Club and the Weeksville Unknowns. Follow the discrimination that led to the Great Migration that brought Southern blacks...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2015].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Every October, millions of baseball fans around the country anxiously wait to see which team wins baseball's biggest championship. But the original games of the 1900s hardly look like they do today. Take a look back over one hundred years and discover the history of baseball's greatest series. With triumphs, heartbreak, and superstitious curses, this action-packed book brings America's Pastime to life.
Author
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An illustrated history of baseball, covering the origins of the game, some of its best-known players, and significant changes in rules and practices throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Author
Series
Legends volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books,an Imprint of Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In this volume, Howard Bryant brings to life the best that baseball has to offer--the heroes, the bitter rivalries, the moments that every sports--loving kid should know.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The true story of Effa Manley, the first and only woman in the Baseball Hall of Fame, and her ownership role in the Negro Leagues leading up to the integration of Major League Baseball"--
Before Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947, Black athletes plated in the Negro Leagues, on teams coached by Black managers, cheered on by Black fans. Those leagues owed their existence and success to savvy businesspeople like Effa...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Using an "Everyman" player as his narrator, Kadir Nelson tells the story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through the decline after Jackie Robinson crossed over to the majors in 1947. Illustrations from oil paintings by artist Kadir Nelson.
12) Baseball
Author
Series
Publisher
AV2 by Weigl
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a biography of the first black baseball player to play in the major leagues when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Also traces the history of all-black baseball teams.
14) Baseball
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
17) Record breakers
Author
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tells the stories behind baseball's record breaking statistics.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes nine memorable moments from baseball's past, featuring Bill Wambsganss, Babe Ruth, Joe Nuxhall, Willie Mays, Ted Williams, Reggie Jackson, Dave Dravecky, Kirk Gibson, and Jim Abbott.
19) Jackie Robinson
Author
Publisher
Troll Associates
Pub. Date
c1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the black athlete who broke the color barrier in major league baseball.
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