Behind the Scenes of Pro Baseball

by Catherine Ann Velasco

Overview

The Major League Baseball season is 162 games long, but baseball players do a lot more than just play ball. Read this book to discover what else players do.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781543559217
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	02/01/2019
Series:	Behind the Scenes with the Pros
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	8 - 14 Years

About the Author

Catherine Ann Velasco spent 22 years at newspapers in Wisconsin and Illinois covering issues important to kids and families. She won numerous state and national writing awards. During that career she created Teen Scene, a weekly newspaper page dedicated to teens' stories, photos, art, reviews and poems. She now writes grants to raise money for programs that help people get healthier. She lives with her husband in a Chicago suburb and roots for the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox. Her screensaver is a picture of herself posing with co-workers with the 2016 World Series Champion Trophy and the Chicago Cubs "break the curse" goat.

Table of Contents

Play Ball! 4

Working their way up 6

Staying Fit During the Season 10

Ballplayers's Workouts 12

Off-Season Training 16

Off-Season Jobs 18

Player Contracts 20

Endorsements 22

In the Spotlight 24

Superstitions 26

Raising Money to Help Others 28

Glossary 30

Read More 31

Internet Sites 31

Index 32

Interviews

High interest information on professional athletes appeals to struggling readers; Useful for hi-lo readers in middle school reading at a third or fourth grade level; Ties to Common Core and career readiness standards for informational texts