To a generation of fans, Willie Mays was the greatest ballplayer they had ever seen. The prowess and speed of the Say Hey Kid were unmatched on the diamond before his time, prompting Joe DiMaggio to l
Chronicles the life and career of the largely forgotten former baseball legend who inspired the creation of Roy Hobbes, the hero of Bernard Malamud's baseball novel, "The Natural."
Nine new essays explore issues of ethnicity and race in baseball, discussing the role of blacks, Italians, Slavs, Irish, and Germans in this most American game. Simultaneous.
?We wait for baseball all winter long,” Bill Littlefield wrote in Boston Magazine a decade ago, ?or rather, we remember it and anticipate it at the same time. We re-create what we have known and we im
Selected as one of baseball literature's Golden Dozen by Roger Kahn, Man on Spikes is an uncompromisingly realistic novel about a baseball player who struggles through sixteen years of personal crises
See why 'Write a Super Sentence' has been a teacher's favorite for years!Help your students strengthen their sentence-writing skills. Step-by-step directions guide students through the process of writ
The dynamic world of reading and writing has changed greatly over the past few years. Writers are pitching their ideas online, exchanging works in progress with critique partners and forming street te
Fundamentals of Academic Writing, by Linda Butler, is the newest addition to the Longman Academic Writing Series. Fundamentals provides beginning-level students with the essential tools they need
The Third Edition of Introduction to Academic Writing, by Alice Oshima and Ann Hogue, continues in the tradition of helping students to master the standard organizational patterns of the paragraph
Explore the fun side of poetry with your students! With 41 types of poetry covered in one book, your students will practice everything from the traditional to the unique. Resources include: writing fo
Explore the world of poetry with your students! Step-by-step directions lead students through writing couplets, cinquains, haikus, and limericks. Resources include: writing forms, step-by-step directi
Daily writing prompts that help students build strong writing skills!Everything your students need to develop critical-thinking skills, vocabulary, writing fluency, creativity, and a love for writing
Give your students the structured practice and instruction they need to become strong writers without losing the creative spirit that makes writing fun!Paragraph Writing is jam-packed with activities
Provide your students with the inspiration they need to develop the vocabulary, ideas, and enthusiasm that will make their writing shine!The new edition of Creative Writing Ideas comes with a wide var
