by h2o-x » July 15th, 2008, 12:30 am
If you have any kids in your lives, you may want to gift them with the book, We Are The Ship, by Kadir Nelson. It is about the negro leagues and is beautifully written and illustrated. I bought a copy for my 5th grade class this year and my students loved it. I had meant the book for my sons and brought it into school because we talk about and play baseball often in my class, but I had to buy a second copy for home when I saw how valued it was in the classroom.
I also show The Rookie to my classes every year. I think it carries a great message and depicts several valuable character traits for my students.
Besides The Rookie, my personal favorite baseball movies are:
A League of Their Own, The Natural, Eight Men Out, The Bad News Bears, Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, and Long Gone. The latter is came out when I was in college back in the mid 80's. It stars Viginia Madsen and William Peterson. It's about a 50's minor league team. It's great!
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h2o-x on July 15th, 2008, 7:14 pm, edited 1 time in total.