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"It was a time of Prohibition, jazz, and gangland murder, and it was baseball's age of magic, when even Hall of Fame players believed that rubbing the hump of a hunchback guaranteed a hit. Broken and deformed by a childhood fall from a seesaw, Hughie McLoon never grew taller than forty-nine inches but he made himself one of the lucky ones. He was chosen as the batboy and mascot of the Philadelphia Athletics. Although the team finished last in each...
6325) Bo Jackson
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A biography of the football player with the Los Angeles Raiders who devoted himself to baseball after a serious injury ended his football career.
6331) Never so green
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In Iowa in the 1970s, twelve-year-old Tex overcomes his self-consciousness about his deformed right hand to take baseball lessons from his stepfather and his tomboy stepsister, who harbors a dark secret.
6333) Mark McGwire, slugger!
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A easy-to-read biography of the St. Louis Cardinals' home run hitter, Mark McGuire, from his disappointing experiences as a Little Leaguer, to record-breaking champion.
6336) Roberto Clemente
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De niño, Roberto Clemente quería hacer una diferencia en el mundo. Aprende cómo el duro trabajo de Roberto le ayudó a ser uno de los más grandes beisbolistas de todos los tiempos. Pero más que eso, descubre por qué Roberto es más bien recordado como una gran persona.
Roberto Clemente is remembered as a one of the greatest baseball players who ever lived, but more than that, he was also a man who believed in equality for all. Readers will...
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"Randall Balmer was a late convert to sports talk radio, but he quickly became addicted, just like millions of other devoted American sports fans. As a historian of religion, the more he listened, Balmer couldn't help but wonder how the fervor he heard related to religious practice. Houses of worship once railed against Sabbath-busting sports events, but today most willingly accommodate Super Bowl Sunday. On the other hand, basketball's inventor,...
6339) Satchel Paige
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Surveys the life of the first baseball player in the Negro Leagues to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
6340) Yogi
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"The definitive biography of Yogi Berra, the New York Yankees icon, winner of 13 World Series championships, and the most-quoted player in baseball history Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra is at once one of America's best-loved and least known heroes. The Yankees' Everyman to Joe DiMaggio's Royalty, he is famous for winning titles -- 13 World Series championships -- for his leadership, and for the superlative play that put him in the Hall of Fame. And...
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