Willie Mays A Little Golden Book Biography

Author : Anne Wynter
Publisher : Golden Books
ISBN 13 : 0593813308
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Willie Mays: A Little Golden Book Biography written by Anne Wynter and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about one of the greatest baseball players in history, Willie Mays! Little Golden Book biographies are the perfect introduction to nonfiction for young readers—as well as fans of all ages! This Little Golden Book about Willie Mays—the "Say Hey Kid" and 24-time All-Star baseball player—is an inspiring read-aloud for young sports fans and their parents! Look for more Little Golden Book biographies: Muhammad Ali Jackie Robinson Tom Brady LeBron James Lionel Messi

Author : Geof Smith
Publisher : Golden Books
ISBN 13 : 0593481909
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Willie Nelson: A Little Golden Book Biography written by Geof Smith and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Help your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about country-music star and activist Willie Nelson! Little Golden Book biographies are the perfect introduction to nonfiction for preschoolers! Willie Nelson, singer-songwriter of such hits as "On the Road Again" and "You Were Always on My Mind," is the subject of this terrific Little Golden Book biography. Children--as well as adult fans--will be inspired by Willie's activism and work with Farm Aid and how he always stayed true to himself by dressing how he liked and creating the music he wanted to share! Look for Little Golden Book biographies about these other inspiring people: Carol Burnett Harriet Tubman Lucille Ball Queen Elizabeth II Barack Obama Sonia Sotomayor Dr. Fauci Joe Biden Dolly Parton Kamala Harris Misty Copeland Betty White Frida Kahlo Ruth Bader Ginsburg Jackie Robinson Martin Luther King Jr.

Author : Allen Barra
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 030771649X
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mickey and Willie written by Allen Barra and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field. Culturally, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were light-years apart. Yet they were nearly the same age and almost the same size, and they came to New York at the same time. They possessed virtually the same talents and played the same position. They were both products of generations of baseball-playing families, for whom the game was the only escape from a lifetime of brutal manual labor. Both were nearly crushed by the weight of the outsized expectations placed on them, first by their families and later by America. Both lived secret lives far different from those their fans knew. What their fans also didn't know was that the two men shared a close personal friendship--and that each was the only man who could truly understand the other's experience.

Author : Charles Einstein
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 080932573X
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Willie's Time written by Charles Einstein and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2004-02-20 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To a generation of fans, Willie Mays was the greatest ballplayer they had ever seen. The prowess and speed of the Say Hey Kid were unmatched on the diamond before his time, prompting Joe DiMaggio to label him, “the closest you can come to perfection.” He was the first player to hit fifty home runs and steal twenty bases in a single season. Mays played for the New York Giants (1951–1957), San Francisco Giants (1958–1972), and New York Mets (1972–1973), and in his glory days with the Giants he not only set the major league mark for consecutive seasons by appearing in 150 games or more but by winning his two MVP awards a record twelve seasons apart. When Mays retired, he ranked third in career home runs (behind Aaron and Ruth), a record of 660 soon to be surpassed by Mays’s godson, Barry Bonds. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the only ballplayer biography ever named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Willie’s Time: Baseball’s Golden Age, restores to print Charles Einstein’s vivid biography of one of the game’s foremost legends. With a new preface from the author, this volume replays the most dramatic moments of the Say Hey Kid’s career—from the 1951 Miracle Giants to the Amazing Mets of 1973—and takes us inside the lives of Ruth, DiMaggio, Aaron, Durocher, and others along the way. Einstein offers a compelling and complete look at Mays: as a youth in racist Birmingham, a triumphant symbol of African American success, a sports hero lionized by fans, and yet all the while, still a very human figure destined to play for two decades amid baseball’s Golden Age.

Author : Lyle Spatz
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 0803239920
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Team that Forever Changed Baseball and America written by Lyle Spatz and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers in contextualized biographies of the players, managers, and everyone else important to the team.

Author : Abbe L. Starr
Publisher : Lerner Publications TM
ISBN 13 : 1728482682
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Willie Mays written by Abbe L. Starr and published by Lerner Publications TM. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willie Mays is a Major League Baseball legend. He started on a semipro team in high school, but it wasn’t long before the Say Hey Kid started playing pro ball. A two-time MVP and 1954 World Series champion, Mays has made history as one of baseball’s greatest batters and fielders. Explore the exciting career and life of this superstar player.

Author : American Library Association. Children's Services Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selected Lists of Children's Books and Recordings written by American Library Association. Children's Services Division and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Einstein
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809388839
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Willie's Time written by Charles Einstein and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2004-02-20 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To a generation of fans, Willie Mays was the greatest ballplayer they had ever seen. The prowess and speed of the Say Hey Kid were unmatched on the diamond before his time, prompting Joe DiMaggio to label him, “ the closest you can come to perfection.” He was the first player to hit fifty home runs and steal twenty bases in a single season. Mays played for the New York Giants (1951– 1957), San Francisco Giants (1958– 1972), and New York Mets (1972– 1973), and in his glory days with the Giants he not only set the major league mark for consecutive seasons by appearing in 150 games or more but by winning his two MVP awards a record twelve seasons apart. When Mays retired, he ranked third in career home runs (behind Aaron and Ruth), a record of 660 soon to be surpassed by Mays’ s godson, Barry Bonds. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the only ballplayer biography ever named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Willie’ s Time: Baseball’ s Golden Age, restores to print Charles Einstein’ s vivid biography of one of the game’ s foremost legends. With a new preface from the author, this volume replays the most dramatic moments of the Say Hey Kid’ s career— from the 1951 Miracle Giants to the Amazing Mets of 1973— and takes us inside the lives of Ruth, DiMaggio, Aaron, Durocher, and others along the way. Einstein offers a compelling and complete look at Mays: as a youth in racist Birmingham, a triumphant symbol of African American success, a sports hero lionized by fans, and yet all the while, still a very human figure destined to play for two decades amid baseball’ s Golden Age.

Author : Matt Doeden
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0761363661
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Willie Mays written by Matt Doeden and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think you know all there is to know about Willie Mays? Well, did you know that: •He once batted .477 in the minor leagues? •He won twelve straight Gold Glove awards? •He was the first African American team captain in major-league history? Willie Mays started his baseball career in the little-known Negro Leagues in 1948. He crossed over to the major leagues with the New York Giants in 1951. During the 1954 World Series, Mays stunned the baseball world with an unbelievable over-the-shoulder catch. That play launched him into superstardom. He stayed with the Giants for more than twenty years, first in New York and then in San Francisco. Along the way, he earned his place in the record books, tallying the fourth-highest home run total in major-league history. Find out how Willie Mays made it to the top of his game and stayed there.

Author : Allen Barra
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 030771649X
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mickey and Willie written by Allen Barra and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field. Culturally, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were light-years apart. Yet they were nearly the same age and almost the same size, and they came to New York at the same time. They possessed virtually the same talents and played the same position. They were both products of generations of baseball-playing families, for whom the game was the only escape from a lifetime of brutal manual labor. Both were nearly crushed by the weight of the outsized expectations placed on them, first by their families and later by America. Both lived secret lives far different from those their fans knew. What their fans also didn't know was that the two men shared a close personal friendship--and that each was the only man who could truly understand the other's experience.