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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball…
“Grisham knocks it out of the park.”—The Washington Post
It’s the summer of 1973, and Joe Castle is the boy wonder of baseball, the greatest rookie anyone has ever seen. The kid from Calico Rock, Arkansas, dazzles Chicago...
“Grisham knocks it out of the park.”—The Washington Post
It’s the summer of 1973, and Joe Castle is the boy wonder of baseball, the greatest rookie anyone has ever seen. The kid from Calico Rock, Arkansas, dazzles Chicago...
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English
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The Iowa Baseball Confederacy tells the story of Gideon Clark, a man on a quest. He is out to prove to the world that the indomitable Chicago Cubs traveled to Iowa in the summer of 1908 for an exhibition game against an amateur league, the Iowa Baseball Confederacy. But a simple game somehow turned into a titanic battle of more than two thousand innings, and Gideon Clark struggles to set the record straight on this infamous game that no one else believes...
4) Chicago Cubs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
700L
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English
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Introduces the Chicago Cubs baseball team, including its history, notable players, and championship statistics.
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English
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"Advanced statistics and new terminology have taken hold of baseball today, but do they accurately reflect the reality of the game? A baseball lifer states his case. America's favorite pastime is enduring an assault of new thoughts and ideas. In recent years, the sabermetrics and analytics craze has infiltrated Major League Baseball -- from its front offices to dugouts to clubhouses to media covering both, inciting a baseball culture war. New phrases...
13) Baseball records
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Engaging images accompany information about baseball records. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
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English
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He lived in the present tense--in the camera's lens. There was no frame he couldn't or wouldn't fill. He swung the heaviest bat, earned the most money, and incurred the biggest fines. Like all the new-fangled gadgets then flooding the marketplace--radios, automatic clothes washers, Brownie cameras, microphones and loudspeakers--Babe Ruth "made impossible events happen." Aided by his crucial partnership with Christy Walsh--business manager, spin doctor,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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What makes a baseball player one of the greatest of all time? Some say a player should be a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Others think it has something to do with home runs or strikeouts. Nearly 20,000 people have played Major League Baseball since the first official game in 1871. In this fan-pleasing volume, readers discover amazing facts about great hitters like Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron. Was old-timer Horus Wagner or recently retired Derek...
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Ortiz is a hero to many. Raised in the Dominican Republic, signed by the Seattle Mariners, and released by the Minnesota Twins, David Ortiz landed in baseball-crazy Boston. Generally regarded as an underachiever up to that point in his career, Ortiz blossomed into one of the most feared and adored sluggers in baseball while altering the course of the game's history by helping Boston win its first World Series in eighty-six years, breaking the infamous...
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 29
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Jack and Annie use the magic tree house to travel back in time to 1947 Brooklyn, New York, where they pretend to be batboys at Jackie Robinson's first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Boston Braves"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Explains what outfielders do and how they impact a teams play on the field, from how they learn to play left, center, and right field, and the differences between line drives, pop flies, and how to steal home runs to help their pitcher out in a pinch.
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