Good Sports : from hardships to championships

Format:

Book

Title:

Good Sports : from hardships to championships

Author:

Stout, Glenn, 1958- author

ISBN:

9780547887357

9780544103351

Publication:

Boston : Sandpiper/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

Physical Description:

x, 134 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Series title(s):

Good sports.

Contents:

Babe Ruth: From St. Mary's to the Hall of Fame -- Jimmy Piersall's battle against mental illness -- Ron LaFlore: Paroled to play ball -- Joe Torre's biggest victory -- Torii Hunter: overcoming every obstacle.

Summary:

Baseball is a great sport, but not all players had the home life as kids that nurtured their talent. Babe Ruth, Jim Peirsall, Torii Hunter, Ron LeFlore, and Joe Torre dealt with poverty, abuse, and addiction when young, and had to turn their lives around to play the game they loved. A moving look at the lives of these four great players.

Reading Level:

1060L lexile

Sentence length: 5 (very hard) Word frequency: 4 (hard) Lexile.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.7 4.0 156581.

Subject(s):

Baseball players -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

Baseball players -- United States -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile literature.

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Library	Call Number	Status
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Summary

Praise for Good Sports:
"Never patronizing, [Stout] captures both grit and glory." -- Kirkus Reviews

Many of the baseball greats overcame huge challenges to be sports heroes--here are five inspiring stories of men who did just that. Baseball is considered America's pastime, but not all players grew up living the American dream. Babe Ruth, Jim Peirsall, Torii Hunter, Ron LeFlore, and Joe Torre sure didn't. Poverty, abuse, and addiction are a few of the issues they had to deal with as kids, but they turned their lives around to play the game they loved.

Author Notes

Glenn Stout has been the series editor of "The Best American Sports Writing" since its inception & has written three illustrated biographies with Richard A. Johnson: "Ted Williams," "Joe DiMaggio," & "Jackie Robinson." He lives in Uxbridge, Massachusetts.

(Bowker Author Biography)