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Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"1935. Twelve-year-old Cato wants nothing more than to play baseball, perfect his pitch, and meet Mr. Satchel Paige––the best pitcher in Negro League baseball. But when he and his teammates “trespass” on their town’s whites-only baseball field for a practice, the resulting racial outrage burns like a brushfire through the entire community, threatening Cato, his family, and every one of his friends. There’s only one way this can end without...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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2022-2023 Middle School TAB Nominations
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Titles Worth Trying: Sports [Grades 3-5]
Titles Worth Trying: Sports [Middle School]
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Titles Worth Trying: Sports [Grades 3-5]
Titles Worth Trying: Sports [Middle School]
Description
"Dust Bowl refugee Gloria Mae Willard finds herself uprooted and working on a California peach orchard, where she tries to join the secret, all-boys baseball team that she's desperate to play on"--
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"Chronicling the first two seasons of the worst team in NFL history, an entertaining sports story follows the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during the 1976 and 1977 seasons in which they cemented their place in football history as having the longest losing streak in the history of the league,"--NoveList.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Twenty years before women's soccer became an Olympic sport and two decades before the formation of the WNBA, the '76 US women's basketball team laid the foundation for the incredible rise of women's sports in America at the youth, collegiate, Olympic, and professional levels. Though they were unknowns from small schools such as Delta State, the University of Tennessee at Martin and John F. Kennedy College of Wahoo, Nebraska, at the time of the '76...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Perry Wallace was born at an historic crossroads in U.S. history. He entered kindergarten the year that the Brown v. Board of Education decision led to integrated schools, allowing blacks and whites to learn side by side. A week after Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, Wallace enrolled in high school and his sensational jumping, dunking, and rebounding abilities quickly earned him the attention of college basketball recruiters from...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From one of our finest literary biographers comes a brilliant biography of Roald Dahl: the much-loved author and creator of countless iconic literary characters. Roald Dahl was one of the world's greatest storytellers. He conceived his vocation as that of any fearless explorer and, in his writing for children, he was able to tap into a child's viewpoint throughout his life. He crafted tales that were exotic in scenario, frequently invested with a...
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
""The Umpire Is Out" is a fascinating journey about Dale Scott's umpiring career along with his being a pioneer for LGBTQ people within not just baseball but across sports"--
"Dale Scott's career as a professional baseball umpire spanned nearly forty years, including thirty-three in the Major Leagues, from 1985 to 2017. He worked exactly a thousand games behind the plate, calling balls and strikes at the pinnacle of his profession, working in every...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The National Football League is a towering, distinctly American colossus taking in $14 billion in annual revenue and provoking intense national debate over issues from player safety to political protest. Yet its current dominance obscures a surprising origin story. As it turns out, in the beginning most people found the very idea of professional football absurd. In The League, acclaimed author John Eisenberg reveals how the five men who built the...
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Hall of Fame New York Yankees pitcher Ron Guidry recounts his years playing for one of the most storied and celebrated teams in sports history--the world champion New York Yankees during their heyday in the Bronx Zoo years, with manic manager Billy Martin, cantankerous owner George Steinbrenner, and an ego-driven all-star cast that included everyone from Reggie Jackson and Thurman Munson to Sparky Lyle and Catfish Hunter. Ron Guidry, known as Gator...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A roman a trois featuring black protagonists. Football star Zurich Robinson is accused of raping and beating a woman TV anchor after he rejects her friendship. He hires a corporate woman lawyer to defend him and receives support from a gay newsman who is attracted to him. By the author of Just As I Am.
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, a leading scholar and proselytizer for physical well-being, elucidates the political and social implications of America's exercise cult(ure). Delving into the paradox of why so many Americans are physically unfit, despite the power of the exercise industry, Petrzela shows fitness to be both a product and a marker of education, social class, wealth, power, and more. Like much in postwar American life, fitness has been privatized,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
An anthology of top-selected "Rolling Stone" articles offers insight into both the late Thompson's early career and the magazine's fledgling years, in a volume that includes the stories of his infamous Freak Party sheriff campaign and his observations about the Bush-versus-Kerry presidential rivalry.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"One of the most innovative minds in business provides an equally original guide to getting ahead. Frank Bennack's accomplishments in media and business are unrivaled. He was named chief executive of Hearst in 1979, and for nearly 30 years he helped solidify the company's reputation as a leader in consumer media, overseeing the purchase of more than two dozen television stations and several major newspapers (Houston Chronicle), the launch of top-selling...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Posnanski writes of major moments that created legends, and of forgotten moments almost lost to time. It's Willie Mays's catch, Babe Ruth's called shot, and Kirk Gibson's limping home run; the slickest steals; the biggest bombs; and the most triumphant no-hitters. But these are also moments raw with the humanity of the game, the unheralded heroes, the mesmerizing mistakes drenched in pine tar, and every story, from the immortal to the obscure, is...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Essentials
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From Scott O'Neil, one of America's most admired sports executives, how to find regular, meaningful moments in an irregular life. When we're moving at 115 MPH, we rarely see the wall coming. But it comes for all of us. The sudden loss of a much beloved friend, the excruciatingly long departure of a parent with Alzheimer's. We grasp for lessons, for meaning, for learnings. Even when an extrovert is faced with the four walls of their own home for months...
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