Derek Jeter's Ultimate Baseball Guide 2015

by Larry Dobrow, Damien Jones (Illustrator)

Overview

The ultimate, fact-filled collector’s guide from legendary sports icon and role model Derek Jeter!

No matter their favorite team or player, young sports fans can look to baseball legend Derek Jeter for information on America’s national pastime. Derek Jeter’s Ultimate Baseball Guide 2015 is jam-packed with facts about each of the thirty Major League teams. Brief team histories are peppered with Jeter’s handwritten notes and interwoven with cool trivia, covering everything from the sport’s start and the original Knickerbocker Rules to baseball’s weirdest superstitions. Not sure how to compute a slugging average? Want to know how many teams have won over 10,000 games? Ever wondered how many stitches are in a baseball? Fans will find answers to these and much more in this annual collector’s guide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781481423182
Publisher:	Little Simon
Publication date:	02/17/2015
Series:	Jeter Publishing Series
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.20(d)
Lexile:	NC1190L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 10 Years

About the Author

Larry Dobrow has written about sports for CBSSports.com, American Way, and San Antonio magazine, among other publications, and about a range of entertainment and media topics for MM&M, MediaPost, Advertising Age, AARP, and Sound & Vision. He is not tall and thus not as in demand for pickup games of hoops as he was before his friends all enjoyed their growth spurts. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and sons.

Damien Jones is an award-nominated illustrator and animator. He studied at the Arts University Bournemouth before undertaking numerous international illustration projects within children’s picture books and educational publications. The energy and excitement of major league baseball was a subject matter that Damien could not turn down, due to his love of American sports and the artistic challenge of capturing the athletic movement on paper. Damien works in both traditional and digital methods to bring these stars of baseball to life, using a few fluid pencil marks to highlight the power that these athletes have. He lives in Cornwall, England.

Editorial Reviews

05/01/2015
Gr 3–6—Covering the 30 Major League Baseball teams, sportswriter Dobrow provides interesting facts and a brief history of each team. The author organize the teams into leagues, which are further broken down by regions. The sections are ordered by each team's standing at the end of the 2014 season. Each section contains a general trivia page (with information such as baseball terms or snacks found at different stadiums) and concludes with three simple quiz questions. Because these fun facts are so random and scattershot, it remains to be seen what the future editions might include. The title ends with four pages of Jeter's statistics and refers readers to an online webpage that provides additional quizzes and printable baseball activities. Though the book is in black and white, the serviceable pen and ink drawings and the use of trivia questions throughout (with answers printed upside down at the bottom of the page) will keep readers interested. VERDICT Despite a few missteps in a field crowded with baseball trivia books, this quick read will appeal to browsers.—Blair Christolon, Prince William Public Library System, Manassas, VA

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