Develop students' reading, writing, listening, speaking, and research skills by using this book's 48 reproducible one-page reading selections - high-interest baseball articles, stories, biographies, poems, and interviews - each followed by a reproducible activity page that requires fill-in-the-blank responses to questions about the passage, or by a project page with writing assignments and other ideas demanding an active response to the reading selection. Grades 5-8. Answer key. Illustrated. Good Year Books. 119 pages.
All across the country in 1919, people are throwing down their bats, and giving up America's national pastime, so it is up to Babe Ruth to win back fans and save baseball.
Illus. in full color. A shortstop in a tutu? Not if she can help it! Forced by her mother into taking ballet lessons, a die-hard tomboy discovers that there's team spirit at the barre as well as on the baseball diamond.
Baseball in Reading captures for the first time the images of the teams, players, and ballparks that have made the city one of minor-league baseball's true legends.
... may shock the fastidious taste of some, but l sister college has proved that such a team can be supported and a young woman's dignity not suffer. ... Maud Nelson joined W. P. Needham's Boston Bloomer Girls for its third season.
While Reading may be known today for the Fightin' Phils, it has also been the site of 72 games played by 17 major-league franchises and barnstorming teams since 1874.
From the arrival at the stadium to the last goodnight, Goodnight Baseball is a sweet, nostalgic tale—told in gentle, fun rhyme—about the thrill of a baseball game.
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Books of Baseball
"Author Ken Mochizuki reads his award-winning book.
Every year about 300,000 people visit the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Fans read the names on the plaques. They read about the records these men set. For a baseball player there is no greater honor.
Under the reign of beer baron Chris Von der Ahe, professional baseball in St. Louis experienced the best and the worst of times. A late-nineteenth-century combination of Bill Veeck and George Steinbrenner, Von der Ahe gave St. Louis ...