Book Description

It's time to "Play bal!" when Christina, Grant, Mimi, and Papa take a tour of baseball's most famous places and slide head-first into a mystery complete with broken bats, blistering fastballs, and a diamond more valuable than a game-winning home run! Look What's Inside This Mystery -people, places, history and more!Places: Turner Field, Atlanta, GA National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Cooperstown, NY Babe Ruth Birth Place Museum, Baltimore, MD Peter J. McGovern Little League Museum, Williamsport, PA Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory, Louisville, KY Fenway Park, Boston, MA Yankee Stadium, NY Puerto Rico Plaza at Turner Field Adirondack Mountains The Grandstand Theater Otsego LakeEducational Items: Rules of Baseball Negro American League All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Delta Airlines Coca Cola Atlanta Braves Boston Braves/Beaneaters 1996 World Series 1996 Summer Olympics Baseball Statistics New York Yankees The Great Depression Civil War Milwaukee BravesPeople: Babe Ruth Chipper Jones Hank Aaron Abner Doubleday Jackie Robinson Roberto Clemente Derek Jeter Ty Cobb Honus Wagner CY Young Mickey Mantle Lou Gehrig Phillip WrigleyThis mystery incorporates history, geography, culture and cliffhanger chapters that keep kids begging for more! Each mystery includes SAT words, educational facts, fun and humor, a scavenger hunt and activities. This Carole Marsh Mystery has Accelerated Reader Reading Levels, Lexile Measures, Fountas & Pinnell Guided Reading Levels and Developmental Reading Assessments Levels.