pitchers (baseball)

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pitchers (baseball)

Tim Lincecum

2012
Looks at the life and career accomplishments of the successful professional baseball pitcher and Cy Young Award winner.

Cole Hamels

2010
Offers a brief overview of the life of professional baseball player Cole Hamels, discussing his childhood, schooling, career accomplishments, and other related topics.

27 men out

baseball's perfect games
2004
Profiles the only fourteen perfect games that have been pitched in the modern era of baseball, describing the games themselves and their impact on American society and baseball history.

100 greatest pitchers

1988
An alphabetical arrangement of the 100 greatest pitchers including their career data.

The fade-away

2007
One fog-bound night in 1900, the citizens of Port Newton, California, fish a six-foot tall, half-drowned American Indian dressed in a tuxedo out of San Francisco Bay. He turns out to be washed-up, ex-Big League pitcher Chief Dobbs, a boorish but charismatic hustler. The Chief begins to lead Port Newton s ragtag town team to victory but only by employing the dirty ball tactics of McGraw, Jennings, and the Orioles of the 1890s.

Winningest pitchers

baseball's 300-game winners
2002
Profiles twenty professional baseball pitchers who have reached the ultimate goal of their profession: to be a 300-game winner.

Pitchers

2008
Explains what role a pitcher plays on a baseball team, as well as discussing the pitcher's techniques, rules, and responsibilities during a game.

Greg Maddux

pitching ace
1995
A biography of pitcher Greg Maddux, emphasizing his baseball career with the Chicago Cubs and the Atlanta Braves.

Sports great Greg Maddux

1997
A biography of the star pitcher for the Atlanta Braves who has won the Cy Young award for four consecutive years.

The girl who loved Tom Gordon

2004
Presents a pop-up book about nine-year-old Trisha McFarland, lost in the woods after she wanders off to escape the bickering between her mom and her brother, boosts her courage by imagining that her hero, Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Tom Gordon, is with her helping her survive an unknown enemy.

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