Baseball Heroes (Good Sports) - Softcover

Stout, Glenn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 054741708X ISBN 13: 9780547417080

Publisher: Clarion Books, 2010

Synopsis

Baseball Heroes is the first book in the new middle grade nonfiction series Good Sports, about the inspiring life stories of major league athletes who have overcome obstacles in the course of their life and careers.   Each book tells the stories of athletes who have encountered and overcome significant obstacles, and whose story exempifies character and nerve in the face of adversity.  Baseball Heroes highlights players who were among the first to break through barriers of race, ethnicity and even sex in order to play professional baseball. Subjects include Jackie Robinson, Hank Greenburg, Fernando Valenzuela, and Ila Borders.

About this title

From the Author:

My goal for the "Good Sports" series is to provide interesting and compelling stories of athletes that reflect positive values and life lessons young people can use on and off the field, and to motivate young people to read and write, which I believe can be life changing experiences; I know there were for me.  There is no doubt that reading is the best way for a young person to learn to write well, and that the experience of writing also teaches one how to think and learn.

I created the Good Sports series based on feedback I received from hundreds of young people, teachers and parents during school visits over the last decade, an experience I enjoy and hope to continue.  On these visits I learned that young readers want books about sports with plenty of action that also tell stories that have meaning to their lives and experience.  Parents want books they can feel good about giving their child, and teachers want books that can motivate children who are otherwise uninterested in reading to pick up a book and expand their world.  As a writer, there is nothing more gratifying than having a teacher tell me that my books have inspired a non-reader not only to read one of my books, but to ask for another book to read.  Each minute a child spends reading is one minute he or she is building toward a positive future.

The next two Good Sports titles are "Yes She Can! Women's Sports Pioneers," and "Soldier Athletes: Doing Their Duty." 

I look forward to hearing from teachers, parents and especially my readers.

About the Author:

GLENN STOUT is the author of Young Woman and the Sea, Red Sox Century, Yankees Century, The Dodgers, and The Cubs. He has been the editor of The Best American Sports Writing since its inception.  Fenway 1912,  an account of Fenway Park's first season, will appear in 2011.  His next "Good Sports" title will be Yes She Can: Pioneers in Women's Sports. 

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarion Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 054741708X
• ISBN 13: 9780547417080
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128