You never heard of Willie Mays?!
Record details
- ISBN: 0375868445 (trade)
- ISBN: 9780375868443 (trade)
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Physical Description:
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
print - Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Schwartz & Wade Books, c2013.
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Subject: | Baseball players United States Biography Mays, Willie 1931- |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Covington Branch | J B M474w (Text) | 33126017550942 | JBiography | Available | - |
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A visual profile of the record-setting baseball star, listed byThe Sporting News as the best player after Babe Ruth, traces his Birmingham childhood, achievements in the Negro Leagues and fame as a center fielder for the Giants. Features a lenticular cover. By the author of You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?! - Random House, Inc.
Many believe baseball great Willie Mays to be the best player that ever lived. He hit 660 home runs (fourth best of all time), had a lifetime batting average of .302, and is second only to Babe Ruth onThe Sporting News's list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players."
In Jonah Winter and Terry Widener's fascinating picture book biography, young readers can follow Mays's unparalleled career from growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, to playing awe-inspiring ball in the Negro Leagues and then the Majors, where he was center fielder for the New York (later San Francisco) Giants. Complete with sidebars filled with stats, here is a book for all baseball lovers, young and old.
"The Say Hey Kid had style to spare, and so does this irrepressible book." âBooklist, Starred