Baseball
Baseball is the national pastime in the U.S. This well-loved game teaches participants and spectators so many lessons, including teamwork, sportsmanship, and dealing with failure and success. This reading set spotlights baseball, and includes fiction and nonfiction as well as prose and poetry. Play ball!
Emma was very excited. Today was the championship baseball game! The winners would all get trophies and be the number one players in the town. Emma was determined to bring home a trophy to put on her shelf. She had never won a trophy before. She put on her red…
This amusing poem about a baseball game was written in 1888. ——————————- It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville nine that day: The score stood four to six with just an inning left to play; And so, when Cooney died at fi rst, and Burrows did the same, A pallor…
Jack “Jackie” Roosevelt Robinson was the first African American to play in major league baseball. Through his dedication, resilience, and patience, he paved the way for other African American baseball players to play in the “majors” and helped move America towards racial equality. The United States during the 1920’s was…
Gina walked slowly toward the school building. Her stomach fluttered with butterflies. Today she was starting school in a new town. Hopefully, she would make some new friends, too. She turned around and waved to her parents, and they gave her a thumbs up; if they only knew how nervous…
Samantha looked at the pitcher. She dug her heels in the dirt and wiggled a bit to get in a comfortable position. She bent her knees and raised the bat to her shoulder. Then she dug in a little more. SWING! “Strike two!” The umpire took the ball from the…