Whiting, Jim
Summary: "Encompassing the extraordinary history of Major League Baseball's Detroit Tigers, this photo-laden narrative underscores significant players, team accomplishments, and noteworthy moments that will stand out in young sports fans' minds"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education | Creative Paperbacks 2021
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Summary: "Cousins and best friends Liam McGrath and Carter Jones must play against each other to achieve their dreams of winning the Series title! One cousin will win; the other will lose"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2014
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Summary: Provides a history of the World Series and profiles some of the most famous men who have competed in this century-old event.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Pub. 2003
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE BUCKepner, Tyler
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches, a highly-entertaining history of the World Series, based on years of archival research and interviews with hundreds of players and managers, filled with never-before-heard details of the most exciting and fascinating tales from 117 years of the Fall Classic. The World Series is baseball's greatest stage....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 KEPHerman, Gail
Summary: Every October, millions of baseball fans around the country anxiously wait to see which team wins baseball's biggest championship. But the original games of the 1900s hardly look like they do today. Take a look back over one hundred years and discover the history of baseball's greatest series. With triumphs, heartbreak, and superstitious curses, this action-packed book brings America's Pastime...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2015
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Summary: "The Year of the Pitcher is the story of the remarkable 1968 baseball season, which culminated in one of the greatest World Series contests ever, with the Detroit Tigers coming back from a 3-1 deficit to beat the Cardinals in Game Seven of the World Series. In 1968, two remarkable pitchers would dominate the game as well as the broadsheets. One was black, the other white. Bob Gibson, together...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 PAPDoeden, Matt.
Summary: Chronicles the history of the World Series, highlighting the clutch players, big upsets, and wild plays of the "Fall Classic."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Pub Group 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 796.357 DOEJones, Chipper
Summary: "Atlanta Braves third baseman Chipper Jones--one of the greatest switch-hitters in baseball history--shares his remarkable story, while capturing the magic nostalgia that sets baseball apart from every other sport."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 JONES, CHIPPER JONOliphant, Thomas.
Summary: This book is built around a detailed reconstruction of the seventh game of the 1955 World Series, on the short list of great moments in baseball history. One October afternoon, something happened in New York City that had never happened before and never would again: the Brooklyn Dodgers won the world championship of baseball. Everything that had gone wrong before went gloriously right. Pitch by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 OLIEpplin, Luke
Summary: "The riveting story of four men-Larry Doby, Bill Veeck, Bob Feller, and Satchel Paige-whose improbable union on the Cleveland Indians in the late 1940s would shape the immediate postwar era of Major League Baseball and beyond. In July 1947, not even threemonths after Jackie Robinson debuted on the Brooklyn Dodgers, snapping the color line that had segregated Major League Baseball, Larry Doby...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sport Team EpplinSorell, Traci
Summary: "The true story of John Meyers and Charles Bender, who in 1911 became the first two Native American pro baseball players to face off in a World Series, teaches important lessons about resilience, doing what you love in the face of injustice, and the fight for Native American representation in sports"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 REISummary: The tragedy and horror of the 9/11 attacks triggered a host of changes in America, including a reassessment of the role of sports and its accompanying hero-worship. Batting averages and home run totals were no longer paramount, particularly in New York, but in the Fall of 2001 baseball played a significant role in the city's recovery efforts. Revisits that remarkable and inspiring phenomenon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2005
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Summary: A history of baseball's World Series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC CHRHeidenry, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Public Affairs 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 HEIVerducci, Tom
Summary: It took 108 years, but it really happened. The Chicago Cubs are once again World Series champions. How did a team of untested young players and carefully selected veterans come together to break the longest championship drought in professional sports? Beginning with Theo Epstein's first season as team president in 2012, sportswriter Tom Verducci shows how Epstein went beyond "Moneyball"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown's Archetype 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 VERSummary: 10-year-old baseball fan Yankee Irving is always the last one picked for sandlot baseball games. But when Babe Ruth's prized bat is stolen during the 1932 World Series, Yankee steps up to the plate to help retrieve it for his beloved idol. He embarks on a wild cross-country journey that teaches him the stuff of real heroes, and along the way, Yankee learns that importance of perseverance and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Everyone'sSummary: After Cesar's major league career is cut short, he returns to his native Monterey, Mexico. Once back home, a group of impoverished baseball-loving kids recruit him to coach their ragtag team. Together, they beat the odds and overcome hardships and bigotry to compete in the 1957 Little League World Series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PERFeinstein, John.
Summary: While covering baseball's World Series between the Washington Nationals and the Boston Red Sox, teenage sports reporters Stevie and Susan Carol investigate a rookie pitcher whose evasive answers during an interview reveal more than a few contradictions in his life story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FEISummary: "Chronicles the landmark moments from every era in World Series history" using interviews with players, managers, writers and broadcasters, with digitally restored film from the Major League Baseball Productions archives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Q Video 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 ONEEnders, Eric.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Barnes & Noble Books 2003
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 796.357 ENDMantle, Mickey
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.357 MANKelly, David A. (David Andrew)
Summary: Cousins Mike and Kate investigate when someone tries to stop the Cooperstown team from participating in the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BPMSSKing, Kevin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2005