Pub Date: January 1, 2022
Dewey: 796.3570922
LCCN: 2021042152
Lexile Code: 0870
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
Target Age Group: 08 to 11
Physical Info: 0.20" H x 8.80" L x 6.70" W ( 0.30 lbs) 32 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Nonfiction | Sports and Recreation | Baseball and Softball | Biography and Autobiography | Diversity and Multicultural
Series: Sports Illustrated Kids: Goats
Description: "How do you pick baseball's GOATs? Is Sandy Koufax the greatest pitcher to take the mound? Is Ted Williams the greatest pure hitter the game has seen? It comes down to stats, history, and hunches. Read more about some of the legends of baseball and see if you agree that they're the greatest of all time"--
Brief description: Bruce Berglund is a writer and historian. For 19 years, he taught history at Calvin College and the University of Kansas. His courses included the history of China, Russia, women in Europe, sports, and war in modern society. He has earned three Fulbright awards and traveled to 17 countries for research and teaching. His most recent book is The Fastest Game in the World, a history of world hockey published by the University of California Press. Bruce works as a writer at Gustavus Adolphus College, and he teaches writing classes at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. His four children grew up reading books from Capstone Press, especially the graphic novel versions of classic literature. Bruce grew up in Duluth and now lives in southern Minnesota.