Students will love learning about the Houston Astros in this high-interest title! Text covers the team's history, memorable wins, star players, and important coaches. Features include table of contents, fun facts, team stats, timeline, glossary, and index. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Big Buddy Books is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
The text is enhanced with plenty of full color photographs as well as reproductions of vintage trading cards and team memorabilia.
The book also chronicles the disappointing departures of 2004 postseason and regular-season stars Jeff Kent and Carlos Beltran, who bolted via free agency and left the 2005 Astros seemingly with no hope.
But as Winning Fixes Everything makes clear, “The Astros Way” isn’t going anywhere. Drellich uses the saga of the Astros’ scandal to detail the evolution of baseball itself.
Fun facts, anecdotes, and sidebars round out the story of each club, allowing your readers to get Inside MLB! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Examines the history, players, and future of the Houston Astros baseball team.
Profiles the Houston Astros baseball team, including its history, notable players, and team all-time career records.
Morgan , Staub , and Menke were traded away for smooth - fielding second sacker Tommy Helms , power hitter Lee May , and pinch - hitter supreme Jesus Alou . The new players were three of the main reasons that Houston began a turnaround ...
Houston Astros: Deep in the Heart shares the stories of the plays and the players who have kept Houston returning to the diamond—from the sandlot days, through the birth of indoor baseball, to the state-of-the art experience at Minute ...
"Presents the history, accomplishments and key personalities of the Houston Astros baseball team. Includes timelines, quotes, maps, glossary and websites"--Provided by publisher.
The Astros' first-ever World Series victory is a great baseball story, but it's also the story of a major American city -- a city (and a state) that the rest of the nation doesn't always love or understand--becoming a sentimental favorite ...