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Gr 2–4—Michelson and Pullen offer a fast-paced introduction to a pioneering ballplayer and a rollicking glimpse of baseball's early years. In the late 1860s, leagues of teams were just forming and the practice of paying grown men to play a child's game was still new. Born to Jewish immigrants from Holland, Lipman Pike and his brother helped in their parents' Brooklyn haberdashery. As they studied for their bar mitzvahs, they found time to hone their baseball skills. Playing "B...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In the mid-1800s, baseball in America was in its infancy when Lipman Pike, a Jewish boy from Brooklyn, began to play. Soon ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More