Baseball's Greatest Walk-Offs and Other Crunch-Time Heroics

by Matt Chandler

Overview

When the stakes are high, some players seize the moment and make themselves legends. From pitching heroics in Game 7 of the World Series to pennant-clinching home runs, some of baseball's greatest moments are chronicled in vivid fashion here. You've got a front-row seat to the action.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781977148322
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	08/01/2020
Series:	Sports Illustrated Kids Crunch Time
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	48
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Matt Chandler is a newspaper editor and freelance journalist from New York. Matt grew up in a family of hunters and developed his love of the outdoors early in life as a Boy Scout. Matt has been writing professionally since 1996. The New York Press Association named him an award-winning writer in 2007 and 2010.

Table of Contents

Introduction Game-Ending Greatness 4

Chapter 1 Home Run Heroes 6

Chapter 2 Game-Saving Defense 16

Chapter 3 Clutch Hits 24

Chapter 4 Pitching Perfection 30

Chapter 5 World Series Winners 38

Dazzling by the Decade 44

Glossary 46

Read More 47

Internet Sites 47

Index 48

Interviews

Features today's most popular team sports: football, basketball, baseball, and hockey and their respective superstars, both past and modern-day; Action-packed photographs provide a full-color, in-the-game perspective to some of sports greatest moments; Filled with snappy, memorable true stories of sports that young athletes will remember and retell to friends