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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
940L
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English
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Spain's Football Club (FC) Barcelona has been one of the world's most successful soccer teams for more than 100 years. Learn about the team's history, greatest victories, and the superstar players that make it happen in this thrilling title! Discover more through photos and engaging storylines with famous and beloved athletes.
85) The World Cup
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
690L
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English
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Text and photographs provide information about the World Cup.
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A sprawling history of the Oakland A's of the 1970s examines how the team under the leadership of such figures as Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, Vida Blue, Sal Bando and Rollie Fingers won three straight championships and helped advanced baseball into the modern age.
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Celebrated sportswriter Roger Kahn casts his gaze on the golden age of baseball, an unforgettable time when the game thrived as America's unrivaled national sport. THE ERA begins in 1947, with Jackie Robinson changing major league baseball forever by taking the field for the Dodgers. Dazzling, momentous events characterize the decade that followed - Robinson's amazing accomplishments; the explosion on the national scene of such soon-to-be legends...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
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"Everyone makes mistakes--even professional athletes. Karl Malone missed free throws in the 1997 NBA Finals agains the Chicago Bulls. Catcher Hank Gowdy of the New York Giants tripped on his own mask and dropped the ball in 1924. Read about game-ending errors, on the court meltdowns, and more in this epci book of fails."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1000L
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English
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In 1971, a small-town high school baseball team from rural Illinois playing with hand-me-down uniforms and peace signs on their hats defied convention and the odds. Led by an English teacher with no coaching experience, the Macon Ironmen emerged from a field of 370 teams to become the smallest school in Illinois history to make the state final, a distinction that still stands. There, sporting long hair, and warming up to Jesus Christ Superstar, the...
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"From the Indianapolis 500 Motor Speedway to the dirt oval tracks in small Indiana towns, thousands of Hoosiers frequent the raceway of their choice each year. Today, there are an estimated 40 asphalt, clay, and dirt-covered oval tracks in Indiana where race fans cheer local drivers, often navigating jalopies pieced together from junkyard parts, to victory lane. Though many racetracks remain in operation throughout the state, dozens have fallen to...
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Here is a book which should prove a valuable and every welcome addition to the literature of Golf!
Written in a fluent and easy style that makes reading a pleasure, this new history has the merit of literary quality, and the author's quiet, unobtrusive sense of humour eliminates the slightest suspicion of dullness or heaviness, without in any way detracting from the seriousness of his objective or the dignity and importance that even the most rabid...
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Open this book and explore the life and times of one of the most storied franchises in all of professional sports, the Chicago Cubs. Pairing historical black-and-white images with contemporary photographs of the modern game, Chicago Cubs Yesterday & Today celebrates more than a century of ups and downs in the history of the team and its legions of rabid fans. The book examines the ballparks, the teams, the players, and the colorful characters that...
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Presents a comprehensive look at the coaches, players, and people behind the scenes of the NCAA Final Four Basketball Tournament. Focuses on the teams participating in the 2005 Final Four: the Michigan State Spartans, the University of Louisville Cardinals, the University of Illinois Fighting Illini, and the University of North Carolina Tar Heels.
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"What were the 50 most revolutionary personalities, rules, pieces of equipment, controversies, organizational changes, radio and television advancements, and more in the history National Pastime? And how, exactly, did they forever change the game? Baseball's Game Changers offers fascinating, detailed explanations along with a ranking system from 1 to 50 that is sure to inspire debate among baseball aficionados. Ranging from each sport's beginnings...
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They had two future Hall of Famers, the last pitcher to win thirty games, and a supporting cast of some of the most peculiar individuals ever to play in the majors. But more than that, the 1968 Detroit Tigers symbolize a lost era in baseball.
It was a time before runaway salaries and designated hitters. Before divisional playoffs and drug suspensions. Before teams measured their well-being by the number of corporate boxes in their ballpark and the...
100) Traditional archery
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English
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• Now in full color, updated and revised throughout
• Information on choosing a bow, setting up the bow and arrows, selecting tackle, and ordering a custom bow
• Practical advice on storing and transporting bows and gear safely
• The history of the bow and arrow and stories of the fathers of traditional archery
• Includes a glossary of archery terms and advice for teaching beginning bow shooters
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