Baseball in the Classroom

Baseball in the Classroom

Author: Edward J. Rielly

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-09-17

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 0786481528

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As scholarly interest in baseball has increased in recent years, so too has the use of baseball both as subject and as teaching method in college courses. In addition to lecturing on baseball history, professors are more frequently using baseball as a pedagogical tool to teach other disciplines. Baseball's interdisciplinary appeal is evident in the myriad ways that diverse college faculty have made use of it in the classroom. In this collection of essays, professors from different disciplines explain how they have used baseball in higher education. Organized by academic field, essays offer insight into how baseball can help teach key issues in archival research, business, cultural studies, education, experiential learning, film, American history, labor relations, law, literature, Native American studies, philosophy, public speaking, race studies and social history.


Baseball Saved Us

Baseball Saved Us

Author: Ken Mochizuki

Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group

Published: 2018-01-01

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 1430129824

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"Author Ken Mochizuki reads his award-winning book. There is some soft background music, and a few gentle sound effects, but the power of the words need little embellishment...This treasure of a book is well-treated in this format." - School Library Journal


Baseball in April and Other Stories

Baseball in April and Other Stories

Author: Gary Soto

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780152025670

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The Mexican American author Gary Soto draws on his own experience of growing up in California's Central Valley in this finely crafted collection of eleven short stories that reveal big themes in the small events of daily life. Crooked teeth, ponytailed girls, embarrassing grandfathers, imposter Barbies, annoying brothers, Little League tryouts, and karate lessons weave the colorful fabric of Soto's world. The smart, tough, vulnerable kids in these stories are Latino, but their dreams and desires belong to all of us. Glossary of Spanish terms included. Awards: ALA Best Book for Young Adults, Booklist Editors' Choice, Horn Book Fanfare Selection, Judy Lopez Memorial Honor Book, Parenting Magazine's Reading Magic Award, John and Patricia Beatty Award


Cam Jansen: The Mystery of the Babe Ruth Baseball #6

Cam Jansen: The Mystery of the Babe Ruth Baseball #6

Author: David A. Adler

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2004-07-22

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 1101075988

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No mystery is too great for super-sleuth Cam Jansen and her amazing photographic memory! Mysteries follow super-sleuth Cam Jansen everywhere she goes...even to the community hobby show. Cam and Eric are checking out a sports memorabilia booth when a baseball autographed by Babe Ruth disappears. Can Cam catch the thief and recover the Babe's ball? The Cam Jansen books are perfect for young readers who are making the transition to chapter books, and Cam is a spunky young heroine whom readers have loved for over two decades.


Baseball as a Road to God

Baseball as a Road to God

Author: John Sexton

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-03-07

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1101609737

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The president of New York University offers a love letter to America’s most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality. For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular New York University course about two seemingly very different things: religion and baseball. Yet Sexton argues that one is actually a pathway to the other. Baseball as a Road to God is about touching that something that lies beyond logical understanding. Sexton illuminates the surprisingly large number of mutual concepts shared between baseball and religion: faith, doubt, conversion, miracles, and even sacredness among many others. Structured like a game and filled with riveting accounts of baseball’s most historic moments, Baseball as Road to God will enthrall baseball fans whatever their religious beliefs may be. In thought-provoking, beautifully rendered prose, Sexton elegantly demonstrates that baseball is more than a game, or even a national pastime: It can be a road to enlightenment.


The Negro Leagues

The Negro Leagues

Author: James A. Riley

Publisher: Chelsea House

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780791025918

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Provides a history of the Negro leagues and the role they played in integrating baseball.


Players in Pigtails

Players in Pigtails

Author: Shana Corey

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks

Published: 2006-04

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780439183062

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"[Corey] has penned an exuberant tribute to the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.... Setting the story during World War II, Corey introduces baseball-mad Katie Casey.... With all the boys going off to war, Phillip Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs, holds tryouts for girls' teams, and hundreds show up, including Katie.... Gibbon's pictures look straight out of the 1940s, with vintage details and an evocative color palette." - Booklist, starred review


Knuckleball Ned

Knuckleball Ned

Author: R. A. Dickey

Publisher: Dial Books

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780803740389

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Teased by the Foul Ball Gang, a young baseball learns that his differences make him unique and strong.


Sport in the Classroom

Sport in the Classroom

Author: David L. Vanderwerken

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780838633540

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A collection of essays that focuses on teaching sport-related classes in the humanities and social sciences. It is designed to aid university faculty in proposing or revising courses and features sample syllabi, assignment instructions, and examinations in the appendix to each essay.