
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!
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(5) Passages included in this Reading Set:
Jackie Robinson: The Man Who Changed Baseball Forever
Jackie Robinson broke the color line in major league...
Emma's Big Game
Emma's baseball team is playing in the championship ...
Casey at the Bat
Ernest Lawrence Thayer wrote “Casey at the Bat” in 1...
A Winning Smile
It's hard starting a new school. It's even harder when you are sporting a mouth full of shiny braces. In this passage, Gina is ...
Samantha at Bat
Samantha found a magical stone that grants wishes. She has helped two people so far and now wants to help herself. She’s never ...