Author : Loren Long
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 26,12 MB
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1416918841
In the late 1800s, a baseball with strange powers belonging to their late father works wonders for three children and a travelling baseball team which must raise $10,000.
Author : Loren Long
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 2009-02-24
Category :
ISBN : 9780606145251
For use in schools and libraries only. More than a series about baseball, Sluggers: Tales of the Travelin' Nine is about the magic of familial love and how that magic can beat any sporting odds.
Author : Loren Long
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 24,59 MB
Release : 2011-02-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1416918922
The Paynes are down at the bottom of their last inning, but are they out? The final book in Loren Long and Phil Bildner's Sluggers!
Author : Kathleen A. Baxter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 39,9 MB
Release : 2012-05-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 159884847X
Want to identify fiction books that boys in grades three through nine will find irresistible? This guide reveals dozens of worthwhile recommendations in categories ranging from adventure stories and sports novels to horror, humorous, and science fiction books. In Get Those Guys Reading!: Fiction and Series Books that Boys Will Love, authors Kathleen A. Baxter and Marcia A. Kochel provide compelling and current reading suggestions for younger boys—information that educators, librarians, and parents alike are desperate for. Comprising titles that are almost all well-reviewed in at least one major professional journal, or that are such big hits with kids that they've received the "stamp of approval" from the most important reviewers, this book will be invaluable to anyone whose goal is to help boys develop a healthy enthusiasm for reading. It includes chapters on adventure books; animal stories; graphic novels; historical fiction; humorous books; mystery, horror, and suspense titles; science fiction and fantasy; and sports novels. Within each chapter, the selections are further divided into books for younger readers (grades 3–6) and titles for older boys in grades 5–8. Elementary and middle school librarians and teachers, public librarians, Title One teachers, and parents of boys in grades 3–9 will all benefit greatly from having this book at hand.
Author : John Cairney
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,90 MB
Release : 2023-02-09
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1476646678
Superstition has been a part of baseball from the beginning. From good luck charms to human mascots to ritual statues of Babe Ruth to the curse of Colonel Sanders, there may be almost as many superstitions as players (or fans). Drawing on social science, religious studies and SABRmetrics, this book explores the rich history of supernatural belief in the game and documents a wide variety of rituals, fetishes, taboos and jinxes. Some of these have changed over time but coping with uncertainty on the field through magical thinking remains a constant.
Author : Loren Long
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 2009-04-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1416918892
In 1899, the trip to Chicago for Griffith, Ruby, and Graham becomes an adventure in itself after they realize their Uncle Owen has gone missing and the Chancellor has set his sights on the money the Travelin' Nine have been trying to raise.
Author : Loren Long
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 17,23 MB
Release : 2011-02-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1416918914
The Travelin' Nine are headed to St. Louis and New Orleans as they continue to raise money to pay off their big league debt!
Author : Timothy Morris
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252065972
He concludes with a chapter that asks, "What does it mean to be 'literary'?" What distinguishes "high art" from a baseball novel, or a mystery, or a romance novel, or pornography? Making the Team suggests that drawing the line may be a more vital concern - not just for scholars, but for Americans at large - than anything critics have argued about for a very long time.
Author : Charles Kupfer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 40,78 MB
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1476626774
"Orioles Magic" is a phrase fans still associate with the 1979-1983 seasons, Baltimore's last championship era, when they played excellent, exciting ball with a penchant for late-inning heroics. This book analyzes the Orioles not just as a great team but as the team to be marked by the fabled "Oriole Way," an organizational commitment to fundamentally sound baseball that guided them for nearly 30 years. The Magic years are discussed in the context of Baltimore sports, fan culture and baseball history, recalling the thrills of a splendid squad that delighted fans and reminding us why Peter Gammons called the 1979-1983 Orioles one of the major league's "last fun teams."
Author : LOREN LONG
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 20,61 MB
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1471109623
In Blastin’the Blues, still fearing they are being followed and even more worried they have a traitor in their midst, the team travels to New Orleans, where the magic of their ball and the music of the city create one memorable game. But like always, trouble is right around the corner and the hits keep on coming for the Payne family and all of the Travelin’Nine! In Home of the Brave, after the rousing success in New Orleans, Griffith, Ruby, and Graham are determined to beat the Chancellor at his own game and save their family as well as the game of baseball. Pulling into their hometown of Baltimore, the Paynes are reunited with a familiar face, and the Travelin’Nine are tested on the field once again. Can they win without the help of their baseball? Prepare for fireworks in this final inning to the grand slam series, Sluggers!
