The Baseball Fanbook

Everything You Need to Know to Become a Hardball Know-It-All (A Sports Illustrated Kids Book)

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Pub Date 03 Apr 2018 | Archive Date 18 Jul 2018
Time Inc. Books | Sports Illustrated Kids

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Everything You Need to Become a Hardball Know-It-All
The next book in the Fanbook series from Sports Illustrated KidsThe Baseball Fanbook has all the nerdy-cool insider knowledge that fans ready for next-level, in-depth stats need to know to impress their friends, family, coaches, and any season ticket holders they may meet. Tailor-made for baseball fanatics ages 8 and up who know the basics of the sport they love, may play it, and are looking to become super fans. Filled with fun trivia, unique lingo, and illustrated behind-the-skills how-to's, chapters include Team Tidbits (salient baseball facts about every MLB team), Think Like A  Manager (essential strategies to understand), He Reminds Me Of (compares current players to legendary greats of America’s favorite pastime), and much more!
Everything You Need to Become a Hardball Know-It-All
The next book in the Fanbook series from Sports Illustrated KidsThe Baseball Fanbook has all the nerdy-cool insider knowledge that fans ready...

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EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9781683300694
PRICE $19.99 (USD)
PAGES 192

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As a children's nonfiction book, this book of baseball numbers is an excellent choice for middle grade baseball fans. I received an advance copy as a download in exchange for an unbiased review, and was happy to find both the content as well as the photos to be engaging and interesting. The formatting is very well done as well. Overall, this book should easily appeal to all young sports fans, including those who may be reluctant readers. I actually looked up this author to find out whether this book is part of a series, and was delighted to find that this appears to be the case. I will definitely purchase this book for my elementary school library, along with Gramling's previously published Football Fanbook.

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Everything You Need to Know to become a Hardball Know-It-All can be found in The Baseball Fan Book. It can be debated that I already am a hardball know-it-all, but I had to check out this book just to be sure! The book includes stats you should know, homeruns by players, games, etc. I probably don't know most of these stats off the top of my head, so maybe I don't know as much as I think I do... ;) There are also all sorts of obscure facts included like who was a switch pitcher? (Pat Venditte) - what player got 2 hits for 2 teams in 1 day in 2 cities? (Joel Youngblood) There are skills that you need to obtain such as how to get an autograph to how to score a game. And of course, my favorite section, HOTDOGS. There's a section on new players that might remind you of some old school players, tidbits on ALLLLLLL the teams in the majors, what "greats" would be on a team Mt Rushmore and of course, all the baseball lingo you need to know to be a true know-it-all!

I received a free e-copy of this book in order to write this review, I was not otherwise compensated.

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