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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Joe Stoshack hears about Shoeless Joe Jackson — and the gambling scandal that destroyed the star player's career — he knows what he has to do. If he travels back in time with a 1919 baseball card in his hand, he just might be able to prevent the infamous Black Sox Scandal from ever taking place. And if he could do that, Shoeless Joe Jackson would finally take his rightful place in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
But can Stosh
...Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
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Description
Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) hears a voice, followed by a brief vision of a baseball field. He believes that if he builds a baseball diamond in his cornfield, Shoeless Joe Jackson from the infamous 1919 Chicago "Black" Sox will return to play baseball. By being willing to take a chance, Ray gets a second time up at bat in life.
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When the Crowd Didn't Roar" is the first comprehensive account of the most unique Major League baseball game ever played, the crowdless game on April 29, 2015, between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox, as well as the tragic death of Freddie Gray while in police custody that led up to it and the therapeutic effect the game had on a troubled city"--
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Eight men out: Based on the real-life Chicago White Sox scandal of 1919, the film tells the story of eight baseball players who plan to throw games for money, and the scorn and anger the scheme earned them.
Hoosiers: Based on the real-life story of a small-town basketball team in 1951 Indiana and its inspiring coach who led them to victory over much larger adversaries.
Raging bull: A biographical film widely hailed as the greatest film of the 1980s,...
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