Author: David A. Kelly
Narrator: Book Buddy Digital Media
Unabridged: 0 hr 9 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway
Published: 08/01/2022
Genre: Children & Young Adults Nonfiction - Sports & Recreation - Baseball & Softball
Lena Blackburne loved baseball. He watched it, he played it, he coached it. But he didn't love the ways players broke in new baseballs. Tired of soggy, blackened, stinky baseballs, he found a better way. Thanks to a well-timed fishing trip and a top-secret mud recipe, Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud was born. For seventy-five years, baseball teams have used Lena's magic mud to prepare baseballs before every game. Read the story of how Lena's mud went from a riverbank to the major leagues and all the way to the Hall of Fame.
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This baseball team had a secret weapon--its own language.
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Sports statistics come to life with engaging text and infographics about the sport of baseball. Readers won't look at mathematics in the same way again.