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 National Baseball Hall of Fame
Transition Projects

BBHOF
Index of
Projects

Team
Members

Objectives

Preparing the
Students


Presentation

Enrichment &
Assessment

Additional Resources

National Learning Standards

Printable
Document




Baseball Coast to Coast
Geography Grades 4 - 8
 

            Additional Resources

 

A.   Literature

 

Detroit News.  Home Sweet Home:  Memories of Tiger Stadium. 
 Detroit News, 1999.
 
Hedberg Maps Inc.  Baseball Travel Map.  White Star Press, 2001.
 
Hedberg Maps Inc.  The World of Baseball.  White Star Press, 2000.
 
Jacob, Mark.  Green, Stephen (Photographer).  Wrigley Field. 
The McGraw Hill Companies, 2002.
 
Leventhal, Josh. MacMurray, Jessica M.  Take Me Out to the Ballpark. 
 Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Inc., 2000.
 
Lowry, Philip J.  Green Cathedrals. Addison-Wesley, 1992.
 
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Baseball As America.  
National Geographic Books, 2002.  
 
Rosen, Ira.  Blue Skies, Green Fields.  Crown Publishing Group, 2001.
 
Shaughnessy, Dan.  Grossfeld, Stan (Photographer).  Fenway.  
Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
 
Smith, Curt.  Storied Stadiums Avalon Publishing Group, 2001.
 
Smith, Ron.  Belford, Kevin (Illustrator).  The Ballpark Book.  
Vulcan Books Inc., 2003.
 
Thornley, Stew.  Land of  Giants:  New York’s Polo Grounds.
Temple University Press, 2000.
 
Westcott, Rich.  Lewis, Allen.  Philadelphia’s Old Ballparks.  Temple 
University Press, 1996.
 

 

B.   Web Links

 

baseballhalloffame.org

Official site of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

 

mlb.com

Official site of Major League Baseball

 

baseballprimer.com/articles/danwerr_2003-01-07_0.shtml

A primer on baseball and geography

 

geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa042700a.htm

The geography of teams with professional sports franchises

 

digitalballparks.com

Virtual tours of most Major and Minor league stadiums

 

americasbestonline.com/BASEBALL.HTM

Additional information on some Major League stadiums

 

C.   Multi-Media Gallery

 

Fabulous Fenway: America’s Legendary Ballpark (video)

 

Time-lapse video showing the construction of the Toronto Sky Dome

 

D.  For Videoconferencing

 

Blank map of United States for students

 

Map of the United States filled in for teacher to use as an example

 

Student clue sheet with space for filling in clues for each city

 

Master clue sheet filled in for teacher to use as a guide