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By Terry Pluto, Brian Windhorst. 2009
Biography of renowned NBA star LeBron James, who, in 2009 at age twenty-four, was named the league's most valuable player.…
Discusses James's childhood struggles and family life and his desire to succeed. Describes his experiences on the Olympic basketball team and with the Cleveland Cavaliers. For senior high readers. 2009By Jane Leavy. 2010
The author of Sandy Koufax (DB 54935) details twenty pivotal days in the life of New York Yankees slugger Mickey…
Mantle (1931-1995). Includes her own 1983 interview with "The Mick" and reminiscences of five hundred others to portray Mantle's remarkable talent and personal demons. Strong language. Bestseller. 2010By Bill Madden. 2010
Biography of New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner (1930-2010). Chronicles Steinbrenner's early life and career as a shipping magnate, his…
purchase of the Yankees in 1973, his legal troubles, his controversial hiring and firing of multiple managers, and the team's ups and downs. Strong language. Bestseller. 2010By Marty Appel, Martin Appel. 2009
Biography of Ohio native and professional baseball catcher Thurman Munson (1947-1979). Chronicles Munson's 1968 draft from Kent State University to…
the New York Yankees, the team's success that led to winning the 1977 and 1978 World Series, and Munson's death in the crash of an airplane he was piloting. 2009Sports columnist for the New York Post recreates the 1912 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the New…
York Giants. Describes the climate of the times, which included an attempted assassination on presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt. Some strong language. 2009By Zev Chafets, Zeʼev Chafets, Ze'Ev Chafets. 2009
Journalist chronicles the history of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, and alleges that…
politics affects the induction of players. Discusses the makeup of the selection committee and associated scandals and controversies. Some strong language. 2009By Glenn Stout. 2008
Twenty-nine diverse selections from print and online journals. Includes John Brant's "Following Terry Fox," an account of a young athlete…
who, despite having lost one leg to cancer, attempted to run across Canada, and Paul Solotaroff's "Casualties of the NFL," an exploration of the plight of injured ex-football players. 2008Stories of the players who played for the Twins over the last forty years. Including pictures and stats. Includes Tony…
Oliva, Harmon Killebrew, Kent Hrbek, Kirby Puckett, Gary Gaetti, and many others. With many stories never before told. For junior and senior high. UnratedBy Nick Trujillo. 1994
Baseball pitcher Nolan Ryan retired after the 1993 season. His legacy is unmatched: 300 wins, 5,000 strikeouts, and a 27-year…
career throwing 90-miles-per-hour fastballs. No other pitcher in major-league history can boast a comparable record. Trujillo, a communications professor and former college pitcher, examines Ryan's impact on baseball and society as a hero and role model. For many years, Ryan pitched in relative obscurity, registering consistent but unspectacular numbers and playing for mediocre teams. Only in his last 10 years did the country take note of his career. Ryan is self-effacing, humble, hardworking, conservative, happily married, and an off-season rancher. Trujillo examines Madison Avenue's use of those traits and how Ryan became just another image rather than the hero he should have been. He also analyzes Ryan's portrayal in the media and discusses the ease with which a person can move from celebrity to hero to image to parody. A thought-provoking look at our national hunger for disposable heroes. 1994By Bob Luke. 2007
Willie Wells was arguably the best shortstop of his generation, yet few people have heard of the feisty baseball player…
nicknamed "El Diablo." Wells was black, and he played long before Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier in a career that lasted thirty years. Luke details how the lingering effects of segregation hindered black players long after the policy officially ended. Fortunately, Wells had the talent and tenacity to take on anything--from segregation to fast balls. 2007By Jeff Carroll. 2007
In the history of sports, few comeback stories compare to that of Edgar Charles Rice better known as "Sam." Away…
from home, trying out for a low-level minor league team, Sam Rice received a telegram on an April morning that would turn his world upside down: his wife, mother, both of his children and two younger siblings had been killed by a tornado. A few days later, his father died from injuries suffered in the tornado, as well. In this moving biography, Jeff Carroll explores the great achievement and tragedy of a Hall of Fame outfielder and Washington Senators favoriteBy Louise Borden, Raúl Colón. 2014
The ultimate celebration of an all-American sport, this picture book captures the joy and the history of baseball--and knocks it…
out of the park! Don't wait for Opening Day to start your baseball season! Crack open Baseball Is_ and revel in the fun of this all-American game! Perfect for the stats-counting superfan and the brand-new little leaguer, Baseball Is_ captures the spirit of this cherished pastime, honoring its legendary past, and eagerly anticipating the future of the sport that is "stitched into our history." 2014. For grades 2-4A collection of memories from California native Dusty Baker begins with a description of how his mom financed his trip…
to the first Monterey Music Festival and goes on from there to reminisce about his life in professional baseball and how it was intertwined with and influenced by his music interests. 2015By Philip Gabriel, Ichiro Suzuki, Ichirō Suzuki, Narumi Komatsu. 2004
In a rare and remarkable conversation, Japanese baseball star Ichiro Suzuki talks about his life, his love of baseball, and…
living in America and becoming a star of the Seattle Mariners team. 2004By Bob Verdi, Harry Caray. 1989
By Matt Scheff. 2016
By Bill Madden, Lou Piniella. 2018
Lou Piniella is a baseball legend. He distinguished himself as player with the Kansas City Royals and New York Yankees.…
As a manager he won the World Series with the Cincinnati Reds. He also managed the Yankees, the Seattle Mariners, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, and Chicago Cubs. Some strong languageBy Bob Hill. 2000
A comprehensive and entertaining look at the most famous icon in the history of baseball-- the "Louisville Slugger". The Hillerich…
family began making bats in a small woodshop in the 1880s and continues to do so five generations later as the Hillerich & Bradsby Company. Includes the evolution of bats from pioneer wagon tongues to the sleek aluminum models of today, how they are made, the physics of hitting, and the strong attachment of players for their bats. 2000By Tom Graham, Rachel Graham Cody. 2006
Bill Garrett was the Jackie Robinson of college basketball, even if today he's mostly remembered only by dedicated Hoosier hoops…
fans. Because Indiana was as racially intolerant as the South during the early 20th century, it wasn't surprising that although Garrett had led his small town's underdog team to the 1947 state high school championship, he couldn't play for Indiana University, which followed the Big Ten schools' " 'gentleman's agreement' not to recruit or play blacks." But during the postwar civil rights movement, IU's administration was pressured to accept Garrett on the team. Invariably calm and courteous, no matter how many players taunted him or hotels refused to give him a room on the road, Garrett played at IU from 1948 to 1951 and on the night of his last game was given a roaring ovationBy Jonah Winter, C. F. Payne. 2017