Download or read book Abner Doubleday written by Montrew Dunham and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts Abner Doubleday's experiences growing up in Cooperstown, New York, and describes how he came to formulate some rules for playing baseball
Download or read book Abner Doubleday written by Montrew Dunham and published by Young Patriots Series. This book was released on 2005 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of a famous Civil War general who some say invented baseball.
Download or read book Abner Doubleday Young Baseball Pioneer written by Montrew Dunham and published by Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books. This book was released on 1994-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief biography of the man considered by many to be the father of modern-day baseball.
Download or read book Abner Doubleday and Baseball s Beginning written by Nel Yomtov and published by Capstone Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abner Me written by Dan Gutman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cannons are blasting! Bullets are flying! Wounded soldiers are everywhere! Stosh has time-traveled to 1863, right into the middle of the Civil War. In possibly his most exciting and definitely his most dangerous trip yet, Stosh has decided to answer the question for all time: did Abner Doubleday, a Civil War general, really invent the game of baseball? It's all here: big laughs, dramatic action, fast baseball games in the middle of a battlefield. You'll be blown away by this sixth amazing baseball card adventure!
Download or read book But Didn t We Have Fun written by Peter Morris and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of baseball in America begins not with the fabled Abner Doubleday but with a generation of mid-nineteenth-century Americans who moved from the countryside to the cities and brought a cherished but delightfully informal game with them. But Didn't We Have Fun? will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about baseball's origins. Peter Morris, author of the prizewinning A Game of Inches, takes a fresh look at the early amateur years of the game. Mr. Morris retrieves a lost eraand a lost way of life. Offering a challenging new perspective on baseball's earliest years, and conveying the sense of delight that once pervaded the game and its players, Mr. Morris supplants old myths with a story just as marvelous-but one that reallyhappened. With 25 rare photographs and drawings.
Download or read book Neil Armstrong written by Montrew Dunham and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the early years of the first person to step foot on the moon, a historic feat he described as "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Download or read book Mahalia Jackson written by Montrew Dunham and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Young Patriots series, which includes Amelia Earhart, Young Air Pioneer (1882859022, 1882859049), William Henry Harrison, Young Tippecanoe (1882859030, 1882859073), and Lew Wallace, Boy Writer (1882859057, 1882859065) a [The Young Patriots series] . . . is an outstanding contribution to children's literature. Patria Press has successfully reintroduced America's past with this fine series for children.a a "The Review Zone a Haleya Jackson grew up in poverty on the levees of New Orleans, hunting alligators along the Mississippi River for food and gathering driftwood for fuel with her brother Peter. But every Sunday, when her father preached at the Baptist Church, young Mahalia sang proudly in the choira "the youngest member at age five! Lively illustrations and engaging text pull young readers into the world in which Mahalia Jackson grew up. Whether constructing her doll's braid from blades of grass, stuffing a cornhusk mattress, or adjusting to life in her Aunt Duke's home after her mother died, young Mahalia displayed the persistence and courage that foreshadowed the civil rights champion and world-famous gospel singer she would become. Working as a maid and a laundress, she always found the time for her passiona "singing her special brand of music known as gospel in churches. She met the challenge of being black in what was largely a white entertainment world, overcoming poverty and prejudice and pioneering the way for all aspiring African Americans who succeeded her. Singing for royalty, presidents, and working closely with her friend Martin Luther King, Haley never forgot her early days on the levee and she found special joy encouraging young African Americans to follow their ambitions."
Download or read book Ronald Reagan written by Montrew Dunham and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively, fictionalized biography of Ronald Reagan explores the early years of a boy who would grow up to become known to millions a movie star—and later as America’s fortieth president.
Download or read book John Audubon Young Naturalist written by Miriam E. Mason and published by Young Patriots Series. This book was released on 2006 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an adult, John Audubon was the best known wildlife artist of the 19th century, and his book, Birds of America, is the standard against which all subsequent bird art has been measured. In this story about the artist's childhood in the West Indies and France, John's love of drawing sends him into the fields and woods near his country house in pursuit of winged models. Games and adventures also beckon: John confronts a ghost in the old water mill tower, presents his friend Cecile with a surprise birthday gift (that goes horribly wrong!), and sails off to seek his fortune in America. Special features include a summary of John's adult accomplishments, fun facts detailing little-known information about him, and a time line of his life.
Download or read book StoryCraft written by Martha Seif Simpson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While storytelling is a great favorite of preschoolers, many elementary age children are more drawn to crafts and other activities. StoryCraft is an award-winning library program that combines storytelling with crafts in an exciting and engaging activity for children in first through third grades. Each one-hour program includes storytelling, a craft, movement, activities, music, and discussion. This collection of StoryCraft programs presents 50 fun and educational theme-based sessions. Each includes suggestions for promotion, music, crafts, activities, and stories. The sessions also include bibliographies to help direct young readers toward additional reading, as well as diagrams, detailed instructions, and supply lists for the crafts. The themes range from a Jungle Safari to Math Mayhem to a Western Roundup, all encouraging children to enjoy reading in a variety of ways. Each session has plenty of suggestions, so that the program can be customized. Helpful Hints for implementing the program can help any librarian, volunteer, or parent turn a ho-hum storytime into a dazzling StoryCraft time.
Download or read book Alexander Hamilton Young Statesman written by Helen Boyd Higgins and published by Young Patriots Series. This book was released on 2008 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a fictional account of the childhood of the man who would become the first Secretary of the Treasury, as he enjoys peaceful days with his books and pet parrot on Caribbean islands, dreaming of one day attending college in the American Colonies.
Download or read book Amelia Earhart written by Jane Moore Howe and published by . This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography on the life of Amelia Earhart.
Download or read book James Whitcomb Riley written by Minnie Belle Mitchell and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Active and restless, ''Bud' Riley, the boy who would grow to be one of the 19th centurys most popular and respected poets, had a hard time sitting still in school - unless he was drawing or writing the ''poems he heard in his head.' Fine illustrations and text rich with history draw young readers into James Whitcomb Rileys world on the edge of the Midwestern wilderness. Children fully experience Rileys lively youth, from learning to swim (nearly drowning in the process) to acting as ringmaster in his own circus, complete with animal acts, music, and acrobats. Fun facts about James Whitcomb Riley provide children with a preview of the poets adult accomplishments and little-known facts about the man greatly admired by novelist Mark Twain and President Benjamin Harrison.
Download or read book Juliette Low Girl Scout Founder written by Helen Boyd Higgins and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a biography of the childhood of the woman responsible for the founding of the Girl Scouts of America.
Download or read book Frederick Douglass written by Elisabeth P. Myers and published by Young Patriots Series. This book was released on 2007 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring story of Frederick Douglass's rise from slavery to prominence as an early abolitionist and civil rights champion is featured in this volume of the Young Patriots series. Focusing on Douglass's early years, this profile details his difficult upbringing as a slave on a Maryland plantation, his early separation from his mother, and his move as an adolescent to the home of the Auld family in Baltimore. From a young age, Douglass knew that knowledge was a passport out of slavery, and this biography reveals his fierce dedication to education. Lively drawings illustrate the climate in which he grew up and the hurdles faced on the road to equality and freedom. Special features include a summary of Douglass's adult accomplishments, including his position as advisor to President Lincoln; little-known facts about him; and a time line of his life.
Download or read book American Baseball Myth written by Adam Bruce and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-07-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is absolutely no evidence that Abner Doubleday invented the American game of baseball. Early American settlers played a game they brought with them from England, a game called rounders, a form of cricket. Eventually, the formal rules were altered to embrace a simple and faster game in America referred to as Town Ball. The game we now know as baseball evolved from this adaptation and quickly was accepted as a new sport among urban area residents.
