Download or read book Home Run Heroes written by Joseph Layden and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In back-to-back format, describes the efforts of Mark McGwire of the Cardinals and Sammy Sosa of the Cubs to break the record of 61 home runs hit in 1961 by Roger Maris.
Download or read book Mark McGwire written by Rob Rains and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Mark McGwire, one of baseball's hottest sluggers, following his quest for the all-time single-season home run record. The powerhouse player who's revolutionizing the game... In 1998, Mark McGwire made baseball history by breaking the legendary 61-home-run record set by Roger Maris in 1961. Not only did the outstanding Cardinals player break Maris' mark, he surpassed it by hitting 70 in one season! Find out all the facts on McGwire, from his childhood in Southern California to his time with the Oakland A's, to his major league comeback with the St. Louis Cardinals. Learn what it takes to make baseball superstardom-and how to hit a home run on all of life's playing fields. With eight pages of photos, plus new information on McGwire's record-breaking season!
Download or read book Mark Mcgwire Home Run Hero Below Level Level 4 5 3 6pk written by Read and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Home Run Heroes written by Mark Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can be more American than a story of two extraordinary young men brought together under extraordinary circumstances from two completely different backgrounds? The juxtaposed stories of McGwire, the California golden boy, & Sosa, the boy who learned the game on the streets of a small Caribbean town, make fascinating reading.
Download or read book Mark McGwire written by Rob Rains and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark McGwire made 1998 a season to remember for baseball fans all over the world when he blasted a record 70 home runs. Before turning himself into one of the most revered hitters in the game, though, he had to overcome poor eyesight and a variety of injuries. Rob Rains looks at how McGwire quickly became a legendary figure in St. Louis, and how hitting a home run in his first Little League at-bat changed his career aspirations.
Download or read book Home Run Heroes written by Merrell Noden and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1998 major league baseball season was truly one for the ages, complete with record-breaking individual and team performances. In HOME RUN HEROES, the writers of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED chronicle Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa's epic march to and beyond Babe Ruth's 60 and Roger Maris's 61 home runs, depicting the drama of the race that captivated fans the world over. HOME RUN HEROES relives every thrilling moment in perhaps the greatest home run dual of all time between Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire. McGwire set the pace as he broke Mari's record with his shortest home run of the year, missing first base during his home run trot and finally reaching home plate whereupon he joyfully lifted his baby son into the air. Sammy Sosa then ran from rightfield to congratulate his friend and competitor. Sosa then made a little history of his own when a few nights later, at Wrigley Field against the Milwaukee Brewers, he dropped Maris and Ruth to numbers three and four on the all time single-season home run list. It was a close thing, but Sosa finished the season with 66 home runs, McGwire finished with 70.
Download or read book Mark McGwire written by Phelan Powell and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biography of the St. Louis Cardinal power hitter who broke Roger Maris' single-season home run record in 1998.
Download or read book Mark McGwire written by Rob Kirkpatrick and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2000-12-15 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief biography of the Cardinals' first baseman who broke Roger Maris's home run record by hitting 70 homers in 1998.
Download or read book Celebrating 70 written by Bernie Miklasz and published by McGraw-Hill/Contemporary. This book was released on 1998 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a homer-by-homer review of the St. Louis Cardinal slugger's single-season home run record.
Download or read book Big Mac Sammy Junior written by James Buckley, Jr. and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 2001 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going, going, gone! Hit a homer with these super stories of Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Ken Griffey, Jr.
Download or read book Mark McGwire written by Stew Thornley and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the baseball career and life of slugger Mark McGwire. From his early love of baseball to his power hitting heroics, author Stew Thornley chronicles the life of this superstar. Thornley also includes McGwire's home run record-breaking baseball season. Action photographs, fact boxes, chapter notes, career statistics, an address for fan mail, and an index are also included in the book.
Download or read book Houghton Mifflin Reading Leveled Readers written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-09-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief biography of the Cardinals' first baseman who broke Roger Maris's home run record by hitting 70 homers in 1998.
Download or read book The Single Season Home Run Kings written by William F. McNeil and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-03 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Babe Ruth erased Buck Freeman's record in 1919, the new mark stood for 34 years before Maris bettered it, defying as he did an incredulous sporting public. And just as fans' anger grew old and Maris was grudgingly credited--or discredited--with an unrepeatable hot streak, along came Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, two goliaths who in 1998 and the years just after proved fans wrong again. But when in 2001, only three years after McGwire seemed to put the record beyond reach, Barry Bonds topped him by three. This time fans were staunch in their disbelief, and while many celebrated Bonds' achievement, others questioned its significance. This revised edition of Bill McNeil's Ruth, Maris, McGwire, and Sosa ("libraries especially will want this"--Library Journal) reviews the careers of each home run titan, with special attention to the record-breaking seasons. The cultural and social changes that may have affected both the players' season totals and fan reception are also considered.
Download or read book What Makes a Hero written by Matt Rawle and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Makes a Hero? offers us an image of what it looks like to be victorious over trials and temptations. Looking at pop culture heroes and others through the lens of faith, Matt Rawle shows how Jesus turned the concept of hero on its head. In keeping with his theme “Pop in Culture,” the book examines how good vs. evil, right vs. wrong, and overcoming adversity are fundamental to how Christians understand salvation. Heroes help us discern the good, fight for what’s right, define identity, execute justice, spark revolution, and save lives. Rawle enters the Gospel story to tell quite a different victory story—one obtained through humility, obedience to the cross, and an empty tomb. How does Jesus redefine what it means to be a hero? Additional components for a six-week study include a comprehensive Leader Guide, a DVD featuring Matt Rawle, a Worship Resources Flash Drive, and youth and children resources.
Download or read book Mark McGwire written by Bob Temple and published by . This book was released on 2000-08 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief biography of the Cardinals' first baseman who broke Roger Maris's home run record by hitting 70 homers in 1998.
Download or read book Mark McGwire written by Mark Stewart and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1999 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biography of the St. Louis Cardinal slugger who broke Roger Maris' single-season home run record in 1998.
Download or read book Roger Maris written by Tom Clavin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Clavin and Danny Peary chronicle the life and career of baseball’s “natural home run king” in the first definitive biography of Roger Maris—including a brand-new chapter to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of his record breaking season. Roger Maris may be the greatest ballplayer no one really knows. In 1961, the soft-spoken man from the frozen plains of North Dakota enjoyed one of the most amazing seasons in baseball history, when he outslugged his teammate Mickey Mantle to become the game’s natural home-run king. It was Mantle himself who said, "Roger was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was." Yet Maris was vilified by fans and the press and has never received his due from biographers—until now. Tom Clavin and Danny Peary trace the dramatic arc of Maris’s life, from his boyhood in Fargo through his early pro career in the Cleveland Indians farm program, to his World Series championship years in New York and beyond. At the center is the exciting story of the 1961 season and the ordeal Maris endured as an outsider in Yankee pinstripes, unloved by fans who compared him unfavorably to their heroes Ruth and Mantle, relentlessly attacked by an aggressive press corps who found him cold and inaccessible, and treated miserably by the organization. After the tremendous challenge of breaking Ruth’s record was behind him, Maris ultimately regained his love of baseball as a member of the world champion St. Louis Cardinals. And over time, he gained redemption in the eyes of the Yankee faithful. With research drawn from more than 130 interviews with Maris’s teammates, opponents, family, and friends, as well as 16 pages of photos, some of which have never before been seen, this timely and poignant biography sheds light on an iconic figure from baseball’s golden era—and establishes the importance of his role in the game’s history.
