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The Reviews Children's
Literature Washington Parent: With warm weather comes the crack of bat against ball. For young baseball lovers, Fred Bowen offers a good read in the fourth book of his "AllStar SportStory" series. In Playoff Dreams, Brendan is a star player for the Cubs, whose lackluster record seems to mirror that of the Major League team of the same name. But Brendan tries to learn from the example of Hall-of-Famer Ernie Banks (who never made a playoff game with the losing Cubs) and is rewarded at the end with insight and a special gift. — Mary Quattlebaum
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Playoff
Dreams The Story Brendan is a crackerjack center fielder on a team going nowhere. He's frustrated and he's mad. His parents are no help. His father is a jazz musician and his mother is a doctor. When it comes to sports, they are clueless. But then Brendan's sports-crazy uncle takes him to a game at Wrigley Field in Chicago. He tells Brendan some interesting stuff about the hard-luck Cubs and suddenly Brendan starts to see things a little differently. . . . The History During his nineteen-year Hall-of-Fame career with the Chicago Cubs, Ernie Banks set one record that he wished he hadn't: He played more games than any other major leaguer without ever making it to the playoffs or World Series. But Banks always had a great attitude and always said: "It's a beautiful day for baseball, let's play two." *Nominated for Maryland Children's Book Award Accelerated Reader™ Test #17588 Disk #H14 (Accelerated Reader is a national program for schools; For more info call: 1-888-656-2931) Scholastic Reading Counts™ title |
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