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Champions on the Bench
The Cannon Street YMCA All-Stars
By Weatherford, Carole Boston & Jenkins, Leonard
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-80372-987-2
- Publisher
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c2007.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 2007
Gr 1-4 It's 1955, major league baseball is newly integrated, and young Cleveland signs up to play on one of the four teams in the Cannon Street YMCA Little League-the only colored Little League in South Carolina. Earning a spot as pitcher, he is chosen at season's end for the league's all-star squad, which will compete in the state tournament. But the athletes' hopes are crushed when all of the state's 61 white teams refuse to play the black team, elimina...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2007
In this fictionalized account of a true story, an African American Little League team in South Carolina can't enter the playoffs be...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
