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But as for the book’s topic, Renna says he was pulling from his own “love of baseball” and his acting start playing a young baseball player in the ’90s.
He has a passion for baseball and wins two tickets to a minor-league baseball game via a radio competition. Going to the game with his babysitter, they become separated when Felix learns that the opposing team has a Cuban player, believing that he might be able to share information about Felix's father, a famous baseball player on the Cuban ...
The Kid Who Batted 1.000 is a 1951 book by Bob Allison and Frank Ernest Hill with illustrations by Paul Galdone. [1]The conceit is that the Chicks, a (fictional) last place team in the American League, discover Dave King, a teenage hick and aspiring chicken farmer in backcountry Oklahoma who is found to have the ability to hit any ball delivered by any major-league pitcher in the strike zone ...
The Kid Who Only Hit Homers (1972) is a children's novel about baseball written by American author Matt Christopher. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was the first in a series of four novels featuring a young man (Sylvester Coddmeyer III) who is trained to play baseball by supernatural visitations from former Major League players.
Black Diamond has also been reviewed by The Horn Book Magazine, [2] and Book Report. [3] The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum lists it as a secondary resource in its lesson on Negro league baseball vocabulary. [4] Black Diamonds is a 1994 CCBC Choice, [5] a 1994 NCTE Kaleidoscope book, [6] and received a 1997 Coretta Scott King Award author honor. [7]
The baseball encyclopedia has been updated each spring, with the 27th edition appearing in 2007. Seventeen editions of the football encyclopedia were published (the last in 1998). The basketball encyclopedia was published until 1992, a total of five editions. Beside this line of encyclopedias, Neft edited more than a dozen other sports books.
Though Seymour was initially credited as the sole author of the highly acclaimed trilogy, his wife Dorothy Seymour Mills was the one who did much of the extensive research and writing for the books. The Seymour Medal, awarded annually by the Society for American Baseball Research to the best baseball book, is named after Dorothy and Harold Seymour.
Peter Morris (born 1962) [1] is an American baseball researcher and author. A lifelong love of baseball led him to membership in the Society for American Baseball Research, where he became an active member of the Biographical Committee, researching the lives of early major league baseball players.