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From Hardships to Championships: Good Sports


Series
Good Sports

by
Glenn Stout

Edition
Exclusive hardcover edition
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Imprint
Sandpiper
ISBN
9780544103351
POTENTIALLY SENSITIVE AREAS
Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Drug Use/Abuse, Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Underage Use
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For Ron LeFlore and the four other professional athletes featured in these inspiring stories, baseball was more than just a game. It was a way out.
Exclusive JLG hardcover edition.

POTENTIALLY SENSITIVE AREAS
Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Drug Use/Abuse, Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Underage Use

Details

Format

Print

Page Count

112

Trim Size

5 1/8" x 7 5/8"

Dewey

796.3570922

AR

6.7: points 4

Lexile

1060L

Genre

Nonfic

Scholastic Reading Counts

8

JLG Release

Mar 2013

Book Genres


Topics

Baseball players. Conduct of life. George Herman "Babe" Ruth (1895-1948). Jimmy Piersall (1929- ). Ron LeFlore (1948- ). Joseph Torre (1940- ). Torii Hunter (1975- ).

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Praise & Reviews

Junior Library Guild

  • Glenn Stout’s emotionally evocative writing heightens the tension and shows just how close these baseball players came to failure. For example, of George [Babe] Ruth’s first attempts at pitching, Stout writes: “He stood on the mound awkwardly as the other boys giggled with anticipation, expecting George to fail. But when George wound up and threw the ball, it streaked right over the plate.”
  • Readers will enjoy learning more about these famous athletes and may identify with and be inspired by their trials, including drug use, domestic abuse, and poverty. Torii Hunter, for instance, grew up in one of the poorest cities in America, but he didn’t let drug dealers or the threat of gang violence deter him from his dreams.
  • Ron LeFlore’s story is particularly inspiring. He had never played baseball before he was jailed for robbery as an adult, but while playing pick-up games with other inmates, he discovered he was a natural. Professional baseball gave him a goal to work toward after his release—LeFlore was determined that the only numbers he would “be known by were the numbers on the back of his uniform and on his baseball card.”

Praise & Reviews

Junior Library Guild

  • Glenn Stout’s emotionally evocative writing heightens the tension and shows just how close these baseball players came to failure. For example, of George [Babe] Ruth’s first attempts at pitching, Stout writes: “He stood on the mound awkwardly as the other boys giggled with anticipation, expecting George to fail. But when George wound up and threw the ball, it streaked right over the plate.”
  • Readers will enjoy learning more about these famous athletes and may identify with and be inspired by their trials, including drug use, domestic abuse, and poverty. Torii Hunter, for instance, grew up in one of the poorest cities in America, but he didn’t let drug dealers or the threat of gang violence deter him from his dreams.
  • Ron LeFlore’s story is particularly inspiring. He had never played baseball before he was jailed for robbery as an adult, but while playing pick-up games with other inmates, he discovered he was a natural. Professional baseball gave him a goal to work toward after his release—LeFlore was determined that the only numbers he would “be known by were the numbers on the back of his uniform and on his baseball card.”

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