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You Never Heard of Willie Mays?!
By WINTER, Jonah
- ISBN
- 978-0-375-86844-3 978-0-375-96844-0 978-0-375-98782-3
- Publisher
- Random Schwartz and Wade
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2013 | Preschool to Grade 4
Gr 1–3—As an avid baseball fan, Winter has written another picture-book biography similar in style to his popular You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?! (Random, 2009). The cover art again uses an eye-catching, lenticular 3-D design, this time showing Mays in three alternate poses. The author extends great praise for his subject and uses excerpts from radio broadcasts of the era to lend accuracy. His tone is casual from ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2013
This companion to You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?! (rev. 3/09), lenticular cover and all, focuses on African American baseball great Mays, the "Say Hey Kid." As a twenty-year-old rookie in 1951 playing in his first game in the Polo Grounds, fresh from the Negro Leagues and facing the great Warren Spahn, he blasted a home run over the left-field roof. Mays went on to become a player who was "Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and Joe DiMaggio all rolled into one," a player near the top of every ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
