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(0)Glenn Stout
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
For a quarter century, the annual Best American Sports Writing has showcased the greatest sports journalism of the previous year. This year's guest editor, acclaimed author Howard Bryant, continues the tradition, seeking out writing that best captures the unpredictable journey of sports. Triumphantly and painfully, these stories reflect on that journey, asking difficult questions about who we are, as individuals and as a nation: What does it mean...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Many of the baseball greats overcame huge challenges to be sports heroes-here are five inspiring stories of men who did just that. Baseball is considered America's pastime, but not all players grew up living the American dream. Babe Ruth, Jim Peirsall, Torii Hunter, Ron LeFlore, and Joe Torre sure didn't. Poverty, abuse, and addiction are a few of the issues they had to deal with as kids, but they turned their lives around to play the game they loved....
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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...
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Series
Publisher
Sandpiper
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Profiles five female athletes through history that overcame adversity and discrimination to become prominent players in their sports, including historic swimmer Trudy Ederle and NASCAR's Danica Patrick.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Offers a comprehensive biography about the life and accomplishments of this learger than life basketball player whose great success during his first year in the Houston Rockets quickly led to the great fame, including winning the NBA'sRookie of the Year, becoming a high paid product spokesman, and landing the cover shot of major sports magazines. Yao Ming is one of the biggest stars in basketball.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
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.
14) Babe Ruth
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
15) 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