Young sports fans will cheer for Derrick Barnes's Who Got Game?, a tribute to baseball's overlooked stars. The Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor author of Crown includes in this volume a lineup of stories too impressive to be forgotten.
In its pages, readers will meet amazing players--such as the first major league star with a disability and the first woman to play on a major league team--as well as learn the history behind the first mascot, the details of the longest game and "the dirtiest pitch ever." Baby Shark series illustrator John John Bajet's art gives this rich study of the sport an extra zing with eye-catching color and rib-tickling humor. Barnes and Bajet knock it out of the park. --Jen Forbus, freelancer