Noted baseball writer Russell A. Carleton looks at the factors which have shaped the changes in baseball over the last two decades and how those influences--and a host of new and unforeseen elements--will shape baseball going forward-- Watching a game of baseball today means witnessing phenomena that would have been novel, if not completely unheard of, not so long ago.
Rookie of the Year (Rip and Red, 2): Bildner, Phil, Probert, Tim
It's a Whole New Ballgame on Book Talk Thursday
Fifth grade is one crazy ride in this middle grade novel about two best friends.Rip and Red are best friends whose fifth-grade year is nothing like what they expected. They have a crazy new tattooed teacher named Mr. Acevedo, who doesn't believe in tests or homework and who likes off-the-wall projects, the more off the better. And guess who's also their new basketball coach? Mr. Acevedo! Easy-going Rip is knocked completely out of his comfort zone.
A Whole New Ballgame [Book]
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A Whole New Ballgame by Phil Bildner (Rip and Red, #1)