Book cover for Pro Baseball's Underdogs: Players and Teams Who Shocked the Baseball World by Eric Braun

Pro Baseball's Underdogs

Players and Teams Who Shocked the Baseball World

2017 Released
32 Pages
1 Hours
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Capstone PressISBN 9781515780472

Baseball fans love to root, root, root for the underdog, and every summer they get reminded that anything can happen in pro baseball. An undrafted player can become an All-Star. A ball club known as a perennial loser can rise up and win the World Series. This book presents thrilling tales of players and teams who have shocked the baseball world.

Eric Braun

Eric Braun is a children's author and editor who has written dozens of books on many topics, including Make a Friend, Be a Friend and Be Yourself, Like Yourself for the Little Laugh & Learn(R) series and How to Take the ACHE Out of Mistakes and How to Take the GROAN Out of Grown-Ups for the Laugh & Learn(R) series. His books have won awards and honors including the Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award, a Foreword Book of the Year Gold Award, a Benjamin Franklin Award, and many others. One of his books was read by an astronaut on the International Space Station for kids on Earth to watch. A McKnight Artist Fellow and an Aspen Summer Words scholar for his fiction, Eric earned an MFA in creative writing from Minnesota State University, Mankato. He lives in Minneapolis.

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