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The most unusual baseball facts you’ll ever find! Behind the game lies a wealth of science, folklore, mathematics, psychology and a very colorful past. Whether they are die-hard fans or casual spectators, readers will be captivated by this collection of fascinating, little-known facts. For example did you know that the yarn in a single baseball is long enough to reach from the street to the top of the Empire State Building or that in the old days playoff tickets were sold for people to stand in the outfield: fans might move to help the home team but not budge an inch for opposing players. With lots of humorous, colorful illustrations, charts, and graphs, Baseballogy explores such diverse topics as the materials used to make the balls (including fish eyes, once used for the core!), freak injuries (one player was stabbed by a bat!), and the chances of making it to the show” (1 in about 14,000 baseball playing kids will get to the big leagues). Entertaining, informative, and highly visual, Baseballogy is the perfect sports book for all kids especially reluctant boy readers.
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Kevin Sylvester is a former CBC broadcaster who has successfully turned his career to writing and illustrating children's books. He lives in Toronto, ON.
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Gr 3–6—Cartoon illustrations and well-chosen facts enliven this slim collection of kid-friendly trivia. There are sections on equipment, stadiums, pitching, and hitting, along with interesting historical facts and records. The book highlights Babe Ruth's home run record, along with the detail that "he once missed a bunch of games because of indigestion. He'd eaten a dozen hot dogs and guzzled eight sodas between games." Baseball's rise in global popularity is described; currently, there are 103 players from the Dominican Republic on U.S. teams. Sylvester visually depicts the odds of making it to baseball's major leagues through a bustling double-page illustration of ballplayers—boys and girls—throwing, catching, and hitting baseballs, paired with text that notes that 11 million kids play baseball in North America but that only about 800 will make it to the major leagues. Sylvester also discusses how the cost of new stadiums and player salaries is passed along to the fans in the form of higher ticket prices, relying on a double-page illustration of a fan in 1950 and a modern-day devotee, each loaded down with snacks with labeled prices (a hot dog that once cost 30 cents, for instance, now goes for six dollars). A trivia quiz, with answers, rounds out this book. VERDICT Baseball fans will welcome this relevant, well-done title, and the whimsical graphics will broaden the audience.—Marilyn Taniguchi, Beverly Hills Public Library, CA
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- PublisherAnnick Press
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1554517079
- ISBN 13 9781554517077
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages72
- IllustratorMartchenko Michael
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