The life and career of Jackie Robinson.

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Presents the life and accomplishments of the New York Yankees third baseman, nicknamed A-Rod, who played his first major league game at the age of 18 and commands the highest salary for the 2005 season in Major League Baseball.

Brief profiles of such hard-hitting baseball players as Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, and Hank Aaron.

Presents a history of the Negro leagues, in the form of a school report written by a young girl after a visit to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

"Mamie "Peanut" Johnson had one dream: to play professional baseball. She was a talented player, but she wasn't welcome on the all-white Girls Pro Baseball League team due to the color of her skin. However, a greater opportunity came her way in 1953 when Johnson signed to play ball with the Negro Leagues' Indianoplis Clowns, becoming the only professional female pitcher to play on a men's team. During the three years she played with the team, her...

Uses simple text and photographs to profile the Hall of Fame baseball player and humanitarian, from his youth in Puerto Rico to his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Before Pedro Martínez pitched the Red Sox to a World Series championship, before he was named to the All-Star team eight times, before he won the Cy Young Award three times, he was a kid from a place called Manoguayabo in the Dominican Republic. Pedro loved baseball more than anything, and his older brother Ramón was the best pitcher he'd ever seen. He dreamed of the day he and his brother could play together in the major leagues. This is the story...

A biography of the Hall of Fame baseball player who broke Babe Ruth's career home run record.