baseball

Traces the history of the Oakland Athletics, highlights significant games and players, and includes photographs, a time line, statistics, and a glossary.

Profiles the Kansas City Royals baseball team, with information on influential players and coaches, statistics, and the team's history.

Traces the history of the Houston Astros, highlights significant games and players, and includes photographs, a time line, statistics, and a glossary.

Traces the history of the Cincinnati Reds, highlights significant games and players, and includes photographs, a time line, statistics, and a glossary.

Profiles the Chicago White Sox baseball team, with information on influential players and coaches, statistics, and the team's history.

Traces the history of the Atlanta Braves, highlights significant games and players, and includes photographs, a time line, statistics, and a glossary.

Traces the history of the Minnesota Twins, highlights significant games and players, and includes photographs, statistics, and a glossary.

Provides a brief overview of the New York Mets baseball team, with information on its history, statistics, successes, and players.

"[Tells the] inspiring story of two teams from a poor, black, segregated high school in Ohio, who, in the midst of the racial turbulence of 1968/1969, win the Ohio state baseball and basketball championships in the same year.

"In 1930s Philadelphia, twelve-year-old Jimmy Frank and his best friend Lola live across the street from Shibe Park, home of the Philadelphia Athletics baseball team. Their families and others on the street make extra money by selling tickets to bleachers on their flat rooftops, which have a perfect view of the field. However, falling ticket sales at the park prompt the manager and park owner to decide to build a wall that will block the view. Jimmy and Lola come up with a variety of ways to prevent the wall frombeing built, knowing that not only will they miss the view, but their families will be impacted from the loss of income. As Jimmy becomes more and more desperate to save their view, his dubious plans create a rift between him and Lola, and he must work to repair their friendship"--Provided by publisher.