Sports Rhymes of the Oakland Athletics

Name: Sports Rhymes of the Oakland Athletics
Brand: AuthorHouse
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By Paul Auday

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The Oakland Athletics' four championship teams of 1972, 1973, 1974, and1989, and Oakland's fi ve Hall of Fame players with retired uniform numbers- Jim Hunter, Reggie Jackson, Rollie Fingers, Dennis Eckersley, and RickeyHenderson - are the subjects of this book of poems! Not only do the baseballpoems rhyme, they are also entertaining and informative. These biographicaland team poems have the added bonus of reminding kids and adults aboutmath concepts like averages, percentages, fractions, and decimals; andwriting concepts like chronology, setting, alliteration, fact versus opinion,cause and effect, metaphors and similes, and personification.
"In Sports Rhymes of the Oakland Athletics, Paul Auday seamlessly weavestogether poetry and history in a truly brilliant fashion. He researched thehistory of the A's, but in a storytelling method rich with facts, statistics, andunique trivia, not even found on our site!" - Sean Holtz of Baseball Almanac(www.baseball-almanac.com)

Product details

Number of Pages:: 108
Release Date:: 2025-09-10
Publication Date:: 2025-09-10
Publisher:: AuthorHouse
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN13:: 9798823029902
Weight:: 684 g
Height:: 22.1 cm
Width:: 28.6 cm
Thickness:: 1.2 cm

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