Who Got Game? Baseball-entertaining stories of the diamond for ages 10 up

My baseball knowledge is limited and by limited I mean that I know the utmost basics of the game and the marquee players. Who Got Game? Baseball is a book that is tailor made for the 11 year-old me. I love the story of things. They’re the key figures, obscure stats, amazing characters and background that make the game fascinating to the fans. I know it’s ironic that I like the elements that make up the game, but don’t like the game itself.

Who Got Game? Baseball is a very fun book to read. Each vignette is three pages or less and usually has a vivid illustration that accompanies it. To seemingly make things more appealing to upper elementary school readers and up, each page is colored with a variety of them throughout the book. There are a couple of four-syllable words that will trip up those in fourth grade. Ages 10 and up should be able to read the vast majority of the book, all the while having fun reading about a sport they love or discovering a character who makes the game great.

The book spans the entire history of the baseball, from the post-Civil War era to the recent 2000’s and everywhere in between. Who Got Game? Baseball is divided up into four chapters, Pivotal Players, Sensational Stories, Radical Records and Colossal Comebacks. There are also some additional tips, resources and a glossary. It’s obvious that this book is mean to inspire curiosity does so effortlessly.

For us, the most impressive aspect of the book is how disarming it is. One could come into the book hostile for one reason or the other about something that they attribute to the game. I don’t like baseball because it’s too long and boring. Well, let’s read the short story about the world’s longest baseball game. From salaries to international teams, memorabilia, kinetics and much more there’s a chapter in Who Got Game? Baseball that will appeal to you.

As I was looking at it couple of times I realized its true genius of author Derrick Barnes’ book. All he’d have to do is put any other sport behind Who Got Game and you’d be able to draw in new fans or provide existing ones a deeper dive into it. Who Got Game? Hockey, Who Got Game? Basketball or any sport under the sky is fair game. And if those books are anything like Who Got Game? Baseball then it’s sure to be a slam dunk or a hat trick. Who Got Game? Baseball is written by Derrick Barnes with illustrations by John John Bajet.