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Brenner, Richard J.  Baseball Superstars Album, 1999.  New York: Beach Tree Books: 1999.

This book is best to tear apart and hang on your wall.  It includes team and individual statistics and 16 full-page superstar posters of Mar McGwire, Barry Bonds, Greg Maddux, Vinny Castilla, Mike Piazza, Trevor Hoffman, Craig Biggio, Sammy Sosa, Juan Gonzalez, Manny Ramirez, Derek Jeter, Nomar, Garciaparra, David Wells, and Ken Griffey, Jr. (MK)  

  Egan, Terry, Stan Friedman and Mike Levine.  The Good Guys of Baseball: Sixteen True Sports Stories.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. 

Find this book and read it--it's fun!  You'll learn about sixteen baseball heroes including Kirby Puckett, the Alou Brothers, Buck Showalter, Hideo Nomo, and Cal Ripken, Jr. (MK)

  Sullivan, George.Quarterbacks! Eighteen of Football’s Greatest.New York: Atheneum, 1998.

Steve Young, Troy Aikman, Brett Favre—all on the field at the same time?  Unlikely.  But you can find them all, along with other great passers such as Jim Kelly, Joe Montana, and Roger Staubach.  Each quarterback is pictured with a 3-4-page biography that describes their careers before the NFL as well as where they are now.  If you love football, hurry and read Quarterbacks! (SM)
 


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