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Author
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jane Leavy's Sandy Koufax spent several months on the New York Times best-seller list. This compelling biography examines the life and career of one of Major League Baseball's biggest legends. At 30, Brooklyn-born L.A. Dodger Sandy Koufax walked away from baseball, accomplishing all he wanted to while playing the game he loved. Adored by fans and his fellow athletes, he left behind an incredible legacy-one that southpaw pitchers have tried to live
...4) Hank Aaron
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Details the life of Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron, the first person to break Babe Ruth's career record of 714 home runs.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the Red Sox traded their celebrated pitcher, Babe Ruth, to the Yankees, their winning streak ended, rumors of a curse began to spread, and more than eighty years passed before the Red Sox finally won another World Series.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Traces his mischievous childhood in Baltimore before his life-changing enrollment in Saint Mary's Industrial School for Boys, where a strict code of conduct and his introduction to baseball inspired his historic career.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
A one-handed pitcher who became one of the select few to pitch a no-hitter in Major League Baseball explains how he rose above his disability to excel at the sport he loved in high school, college, and adulthood.
11) Joe DiMaggio
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and career of the legendary New York Yankees star Joe DiMaggio.
12) Babe Ruth
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and career of George Herman Ruth, perhaps the most talented and popular player in baseball history.
13) Ty Cobb
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and career of Ty Cobb, perhaps the most talented and popular player in baseball history.
15) Willie Mays
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A biography of the professional baseball player who played in every All-Star Game from 1954 to 1973.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Captures the young Yankee captain from Canton, Ohio, and his meteoric rise to stardom with baseball's most storied franchise, and examines the tumultuous childhood, satisfying marriage, and cultural roots that defined the man and his passion for flying which led to his untimely death.
Author
Publisher
Astra Publishing House
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles the story of the legendary baseball star, his favorite bat, Betsy Ann, and the longest hitting streak in baseball history, which united the country on the brink of World War II.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drawing on more than five hundred interviews with loved ones and fellow baseball players, the author crafts a deeply personal biography of the Yankee great, weaving her own memories of the major league slugger with an authoritative account of his life onand off the field.
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