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2) Muhammad Ali
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"A stolen bicycle led twelve-year-old Cassius Clay to his first boxing teacher. He spent endless hours training, determined that he would one day become the heavyweight champion of the world. In 1964 he beat Sonny Liston to make his prediction come true. When Ali refused to fight in the Vietnam War, his title was stripped from him, and he was banned from boxing. But just a few years later, he made an incredible comeback. Find out how alie became...
3) Hank Aaron
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
A biography of the major league baseball slugger who finished the 1973 season within a few home runs of breaking Babe Ruth's career home run record.
4) Joe DiMaggio
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
A New York Yankees hero since his rookie year in 1936, Jo DiMaggio became a national hero by completing the longest hitting streak in the history of Major League Baseball with hits in fifty-six consecutive games in 1941. Arguably the best centerfielder in baseball history, DiMaggio won the World Series nine times-including his first four seasons with the team. Although plagued with a series of injuries that eventually forced him to retire, DiMaggio...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Think you know all there is to know about Wayne Gretzky? Well, did you know that: He started playing hockey professionally at age seventeen? He scored at least one goal in each of the first fifty-one games of the 1983–1984 hockey season? He holds the NHL record for most career regular-season assists, with 1,963?Canada native Wayne Gretzky grew up surrounded by hockey. He joined his first hockey team at age six and spent most of his childhood playing...
6) Jesse Owens
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Discusses the life and career of Jesse Owens, the African American track star who won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics.
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