HIT: Baseball Theme 3

[Belinda Holbrook <holbrook@REVEALED.NET>]

I frequently do a baseball theme (can you tell?).  The titles with the *
are
favorites of mine.


        1.The grand-slam kid.
        2.Little league ball hawk.
        3.Horse that played center field.
        4.Ruth Marini of the Dodgers.
        5.About the B'nai Bagels.
        6.Roberto Clemente.
      * 7.Bat, ball, glove
        8.More strange but true baseball stories
        9.Jackie Robinson.
       10.The baseball bargain
       11.Basic baseball strategy.
       12.Sports Illustrated book of baseball.
       13.The Berenstain Bears go out for the team.
       14.All star fever
       15.The Boys' Life book of baseball stories.
    *  16.The trading game.
       17.The baseball trick.
       18.Left-handed shortstop.
       19.Babe Ruth: the big moments of the big fellow
       20.The year Mom won the pennant.
   *   21.Playing right field Illus by Marc Simot
       22.Curious George plays baseball.
       23.Rosie's double dare.
       24.Pressure play
       25.The dog who pitched a no-hitter
       26.Double play at short
     * 27.When Willard met Babe Ruth I
       28.Cam Jansen and the mystery of the Babe Ruth baseball
       29.Little League tournament.
       30.Not bad for a girl.
       31.Everyone wins at TeeBall.
       32.Junk pitcher.
       33.Home run : the story of Babe Ruth
       34.Baseball mouse.
     * 35.Finding Buck McHenry
       36.Something queer at the ball park; a mystery.
       37.Hang tough, Paul Mather.
    *  38.Frank and Ernest play ball
       39.Catcher with a glass arm.
       40.Me, Mop and the Moondance Kid. Illus by Rodney Pate.
       41.Thank you, Jackie Robinson.
      *42.At the crack of the bat: baseball poems.
       43.Here comes the strikeout.
       44.The home run trick. Illus by Paul Galdone
       45.Little league heroes
       46.Little league stepson
       47.Little League victory
    *  48.Black diamond: the story of the Negro baseball leagues
       49.Jake.
       50.Bats and balls.
       51.Matt Gargan's boy.
       52.Way to go, Teddy.
       53. The kid's world almanac of baseball
     * 54.Fleet-footed Florence.
     * 55.Casey at the bat
       56.Ollie's team and the baseball computer.
    *  57.Baseball saved us Illus by Dom Lee
     * 58.Take me out to the bat and ball factory
     * 59. 25 great moments (Baseball, the American epic)
       60.The perfect pitch.
       61.Little League visitor
     * 62.The field beyond the outfield.
       63.Satchel Paige: the best arm in baseball
       64.The diamond champs.
       65.The game of baseball.
       66.The kid who only hit homers.
       67. Herbie Jones and the monster ball
       68.Stranger on the ball club.
       69.Man out at first
       70.Johnny Lee.
       71. Baseball-istics; The basic physics of baseball
       72.Arnold plays baseball; ABC adventures.
       73.The pictorial history of baseball
       74.Max.
       75.First in the field : Baseball hero Jackie Robinson.
       76.Baseball pals.


If you need authors, publishers, etc. just go to my library search site
at:
http://birchlane.davis.ca.us/catalog/dbw1.htm
Type in baseball, click on subject, hit search and you will come up with
these titles and a few more.

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Upstart, the library theme product magazine, has many ideas about the
baseball theme.

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A poetry book you want to consider is "That Sweet Diamond: Baseball Poems"
by Paul B. Janeczko. I used a couple without the titles and had students
write titles for them and determine what was being described.

The major league baseball teams have web sites - I use the Seattle Mariner
Spring Training web site for lessons each Spring
http://www.majorleaguebaseball.com/springtraining/sea.sml
You should be able to find one like Milwaukee - near you. Maybe you could
have a minor league team communicate with your students - email or penpals
or ask for signed pictures, etc.

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Another good book is Baseball Math: Grandslam Activities and Projects for
Grades 4-8.  Published by GoodYearBooks/ScottForesman, Glenview, IL.
The book is 9.95 and if you can't afford for the entire group at least get
one for you.  Has some great ideas such as measuring distance around
bases,
figuring out losses and gains on baseball card trading, scheduling games,
calculating earned run averages, etc.

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One more still to come!





Belinda Holbrook
Media Specialist
Madison School
Davenport, IA
holbrook@revealed.net

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