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1) Joe DiMaggio
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 3
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A New York Yankees hero since his rookie year in 1936, Jo DiMaggio became a national hero by completing the longest hitting streak in the history of Major League Baseball with hits in fifty-six consecutive games in 1941. Arguably the best centerfielder in baseball history, DiMaggio won the World Series nine times-including his first four seasons with the team. Although plagued with a series of injuries that eventually forced him to retire, DiMaggio...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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"Mamie "Peanut" Johnson had one dream: to play professional baseball. She was a talented player, but she wasn't welcome on the all-white Girls Pro Baseball League team due to the color of her skin. However, a greater opportunity came her way in 1953 when Johnson signed to play ball with the Negro Leagues' Indianoplis Clowns, becoming the only professional female pitcher to play on a men's team. During the three years she played with the team, her...
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"Red Sox fans fill Fenway Park in Boston to see the living legend David Ortiz play. Known as 'Big Papi,' the designated hitter Ortiz has astonished baseball fans with huge hits and a big smile. In this fact-filled biography, readers discover that Ortiz learned about baseball from his father in the Dominican Republic. They follow Ortiz's path from high school to his first professional contract with the Seattle Mariners, his trade to the Minnesota Twins,...
6) Frank Thomas
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Pub. Date
1996
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A biography of Frank Thomas, first baseman for the Chicago White Sox.
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2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Looks at the life of Major League Baseball and New York Yankee legend Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, describing how his differences challenged his baseball prospects and helped motivate him to prove his abilities as a player, coach, and manager.
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[2023]
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"Baseball is often called "America's Pastime." It's one of the most popular sports in the United States and in many other countries around the world too. Many kids grow up playing baseball. The best baseball players make it to the highest level of the sport in the United States: Major League Baseball (MLB). Whether you want to make it to the MLB someday or just root for your favorite team, it helps to know as much as you can about this sport. Every...
17) Roberto Clemente
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2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
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"Meet Puerto Rican Baseball Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente-once just a kid from Carolina, Puerto Rico, who loved to play baseball on the streets of his hometown with friends and family. As a right fielder, Roberto played eighteen seasons with Major League Baseball, but his life was tragically cut short when a plane he chartered to bring earthquake relief supplies to Nicaragua crashed. The first Latin American player to be inducted into the National...
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2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"While most athletes excel in just one sport, Jim Thorpe was different. Born in Oklahoma in 1887, he played both professional football and baseball, and ran track and field. Jim was not only a sports icon but also a trailblazer. Raised as part of the Sac and Fox tribal nation, he was the first Native American person to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States. And although his personal life was not always as successful as his career, Jim remains...