You Never Heard of Willie Mays?!

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By Jonah Winter
Publisher Dragonfly Books
You Never Heard of Willie Mays?!
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pMany 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 on iThe Sporting Newsis list of Baseballs 100 Greatest Players. brbrIn Jonah Winter and Terry Wideners fascinating picture book biography, young readers can follow Mayss unparalleled career from growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, to playing aweinspiring 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. brbrThe Say Hey Kid had style to spare, and so does this irrepressible book. iBooklisti, StarredpbrbrbriFrom the Hardcover edition.i

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1911 words1,911 words
40 pages40 pages
Lexile 850LLexile 850L
Grade P to 5Grade P to 5
Age 4-10Age 4-10
Published 2016Published 2016

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9781101934210

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