baseball

Presents a collection of bizarre behavior rituals, routines, and superstitions by a number of baseball players throughout the history of the game.

"Imagine what would happen in the twelve dancing princesses were actually sneaking into a fairy world in order to play baseball"--Back cover.

"A coming of age story set in historic and diverse Montreal, where a young Jewish boy dreams of a brighter future just as Jackie Robinson is making history with baseball's Montreal Royals."--Provided by publisher.

Provides answers to thirty miscellaneous questions about baseball, covering umpire hand signals, starting pitchers, the loss column, the seventh-inning stretch, and more.

On April 15, 1947, Matt Romano and his father watch the Brooklyn Dodgers season-opener, during which Jackie Robinson, a twenty-eight-year-old rookie, breaks the "color line" that had kept black men out of Major League baseball.

Junior is surprised to find out he made the local traveling baseball team, but when he learns why he was chosen, he is not sure that he wants to play ball on this team, even if it is bringing him closer to his father.

Photographs and text introduce baseball terms and trivia.

A collection of thirty stories and essays dealing with baseball, including works by Roger Angell, Abbott & Costello, Ring Lardner, Zane Grey, John Updike, and others.