Sports Great Scottie Pippen (Sports Great Books) [Library Binding]

Peter C. Bjarkman (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up | Series: Sports Great Books

Looks at the career of this basketball star who, in spite of playing in the shadow of Michael Jordan, has become one of the greatest all-around performers in the sport's history.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Library Binding: 64 pages
• Publisher: Enslow Publishers; illustrated edition edition (July 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0894907557
• ISBN-13: 978-0894907555
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,043,819 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Peter Bjarkman is widely recognized as a leading authority on Cuban baseball, both pre- and post-revolution. He has covered the Cuban League and the Cuban national team for the popular website www.BaseballdeCuba.com since 2007 and has traveled widely with the Cubnan national team to international tournaments for the past fifteen years. His volume entitled A HISTORY OF CUBAN BASEBALL, 1864-2006 (McFarland, 2007) is universally considered the seminal work on the history of the island nation's national pastime. Bjarkman has also written widely over the past 20 years on Latin American baseball, major league baseball, and NCAA and NBA basketball. He has appeared in numerous television and radio interviews and in more than a dozen documentary films on baseball and basketball history. Bjarkman can also be found at www.bjarkman.com, www.BaseballdeCuba.com, and on his popular MLB Blog (Bjarkman's Latino and Cuban Baseball History Page) which has been an MLB "Top 100 Blog Site" for the past two years (2008, 2009).