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Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Reginald is more interested in practicing his violin than in his father's job managing the worst team in the Negro Leagues, but when Papa makes him the bat boy and his music begins to lead the team to victory, Papa realizes the value of his son's passion.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 7
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
With his ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe takes Flip with him to find out whether Satchel Paige really was the fastest pitcher ever.
5) Coco Grimes
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Thomas talks his grandfather into driving across Florida to meet Coco Grimes, an old man who remembers Negro League baseball.
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