Offers advice that coaches of softball can rely on from the first practice to the final game. This title helps to develop a team's fundamental skills including fielding, catching, throwing and hitting. It includes a section on pitching instruction and the ready-to-use practice plans that help the reader get the most out of every practice.

"For more than one hundred years, the home run has been the most exciting play in baseball. Read about the longest, strangest, and most important home runs in Major League Baseball history"--

"In 1950, Kathryn Johnston wanted to play Little League, but an unwritten rule kept girls from trying out. So she cut off her hair and tried out as a boy under the nickname "Tubby." She made the team--and inspired future generations. An inspiring and suspenseful story about what it means to want to do something so badly you're willing to break the rules--and how, sometimes, breaking the rules can lead to change"-- ""The true story of Kathryn "Tubby"...

The game of baseball has long been dubbed America's national pastime. When the top teams face off in the World Series each season, team legacies and fans' hearts are on the line. Author, Matt Doeden, covers the century-long history of the World Series, from its humble beginnings to becoming a worldwide sensation. In this book you will discover the drama behind the statistics and record books that keeps the crowd enthralled in their seats!

I spy with my little eye two pictures that look just the same. An identical view isn't always what's true. Find the changes to play this game.

Contemporary biography of Clayton Kershaw, Los Angeles Dodgers Cy Young Award winner and ace baseball pitcher. Robbie Reader Contemporary Biographies are up-to-date, well written, and colorful. Series titles include people in the news from sports, entertainment, movies, and music. Students read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension and read on-level text with purpose and understanding. Series titles have been developed to

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Head to sunny Southern California to watch the San Diego Padres take on Major League Baseball's best. Meet the top players, read stories of past and present, and check out all the key stats. Root, root, root for the home team as you become a Padres expert! Additional features include a table of contents, informative captions, a diagram of the home field, a section on basic gear, a phonetic glossary, sources for further research, an index, and information...

As a boy, Kenichi “Zeni” Zenimura dreams of playing professional baseball, but everyone tells him he is too small. Yet he grows up to be a successful player, playing with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig! When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor in 1941, Zeni and his family are sent to one of ten internment camps where more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry are imprisoned without trials. Zeni brings the game of baseball to the camp, along with a sense...

"Have you ever wondered who are the greatest baseball players of all time? This top-10s title has answers! Readers are also invited to think critically about which players they personally consider the greatest"--

When Orlando "Cha Cha" Cepeda began playing major league baseball in 1958, the San Francisco Giants' farm director compared the newly acquired player to the great Willie Mays, saying that Cepeda was the best young player he'd seen since the "Say Hey Kid" emerged. The Orlando Cepeda Story follows that sensational year and those following when Cepeda slammed his way into a professional baseball career that would last nearly twenty years and

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