Photographs and easy-to-follow text highlight ten milestones from throughout the history of baseball, including Jackie Robinson signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, and Pittsburgh's 1960 World Series win against the Yankees.
Offers a brief history of the World Series, describing how the sporting event has evolved, how baseball teams qualify to play in the Series, what the game's rules are, and who the most memorable players have been.
When Honey hits a homerun and the class cheers for her, Jacob says something terrible to her because he thinks it is all her fault that he had missed the ball. The team gets mad at him and no one talks to him. Then he realizes making up is much more fun than fighting.
Allen's grandpa has never missed a baseball game until tonight. While Allen plays his most important game ever, Grandpa fights for his life at the hospital. Written in Spanish.
Willie, a boy growing up on the north side of Chicago in 1942, is disheartened when a neighbor tells him his skin color prohibits him from ever realizing his dream of playing professional baseball, but his hopes are revived when he sees an exhibition game at Wrigley Field between an astonishing Negro League team and players from the Major Leagues.
