Baseball's greatest myths and legends / by Elliott Smith.
Title:
Baseball's greatest myths and legends / by Elliott Smith.
ISBN:
9781669003458
9781669040217
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
North Mankato, Minnesota : Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint, [2023]
©2023
Physical Description:
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Introduction: Tied up -- Legendary called shot -- A doomed bird -- Who invented baseball? -- Highway homer -- Billy goat curse.
Summary:
"Did a major-league pitcher really hit a bird with a fastball in the middle of a game? What did a goat have to do with the Chicago Cubs not winning a championship for more than 70 years? Did Babe Ruth really point toward center field just before hitting a big home run in the 1932 World Series? Prepare to uncover the real stories behind these and other great baseball myths and legends!"-- Provided by publisher.
Genre:
Audience:
Decoding demand: 85 (very high) Semantic demand: 96 (very high) Syntactic demand: 61 (high) Structure demand: 86 (very high) Lexile
Audience:
540L Lexile
OCLC Number:
on1321901612
Availability:
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