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1) Calico Joe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
In this novel, the careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it is what happens off the field that makes this story a classic.
8) The Rookie
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
When a shoulder injury ended his minor league pitching career twelve years ago, Jim Morris resorted to the next best thing: coaching. But Jim's team, knowing their coach is a great ball player, makes a deal with him: if they win the district championship, they want Jim to try out for a major-league organization. Going from worst to first, the team makes it to state, and Jim is forced to live up to his end of the deal. While there prove to be a lot...
9) The pitcher
Author
Publisher
Koehler Books
Pub. Date
[2013].
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Description
"A story of a man at the end of his dream and a boy whose dream is to make the high school baseball team"--Cover p. [4]
11) Growing up Pedro
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 730L
Language
English
Description
"Before Pedro Martínez was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, before he pitched the Red Sox to a World Series championship, before he was named to the All-Star team eight times, before he won the Cy Young Award three times, he was a kid from a place called Manoguayabo in the Dominican Republic. Pedro loved baseball more than anything, and his older brother Ramón was the best pitcher he'd ever seen. He dreamed of the day he and his brother could...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times baseball columnist, a ... history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than three hundred people from Hall of Famers to the stars of today"--Dust jacket flap.
Even the slightest calibration can turn a baseball from an ordinary pitch into a weapon to thwart the greatest hitters in the world. Each pitch has its own history, evolving through...
Author
Publisher
Triumph
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Provides accounts of over thirty of the best-pitched games in the history of baseball, covering perfect games, near-misses, no-hitters, strikeouts, and clutch performances, each with photographs and statistics, and includes a companion DVD program.
19) Strikeout kings
Author
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Pub
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English