Throughout the 1998 baseball season, two names made the headlines more than any others: Mark McGwire, the eventual home run king, and Sammy Sosa, the runner-up in a race that won the hearts of baseball fans worldwide. Yet at the end of the day, it was Sosa who walked away with the National League's MVP award, not McGwire. Why? Because Sosa had dug the dismal 1997 Chicago Cubs out of the cellar not just with his home runs, but also with his spectacular all-around play. Yet Sosa's contributions off the field, both in the States and in his native land, the Dominican Republic, are even more impressive. In this powerful biography of one of the most admired sluggers in baseball, Matt Christopher, the number one sports series for kids, traces Sosa's life from his poverty-stricken childhood-when shining shoes put food on the table-to his professional career. For more information on the Matt Christopher Sports Bio Bookshelf, please see the last pages of this book.

At the Plate with...Sammy Sosa (Athlete Biographies)

Children's Books

Christopher, Matt

Biographies

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Perry Hollow, Pennsylvania, was always a sleepy little town...until the first body was found. Embalmed and with its lips sewn shut, the body is a horrific calling card from a killer on the lookout for their next victim... It's the message that nobody wants to hear... Perry Hollow, Pennsylvania, is a sleepy little town. That isuntil George Winnick's body is found in a homemade coffin,his lips sewn shut and his veins pumped with embalming fluid. Sickening as the discovery is, it becomes even more so whenpolice chief Kat Campbell finds that the local newspaperreceived a death notice for Winnick - before he was killed... Kat is out of her depth, but she's not about to sit by whilesomeone terrorizes her community. Will her efforts be enoughto stop a twisted killer before another corpse appears?

At the Plate With... Sammy Sosa (Athlete Biographies)

Biographies & Memoirs

Demco Media

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A biography of the Chicago Cubs power hitter, Sammy Sosa, from his poor childhood in the Dominican Republic to the home run record-breaking 1998 season.

At The Plate With Sammy Sosa (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Turtleback Books

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