Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series -- Traci Sorell, Hardcover Wen Spencer a lonely boy

a lonely boy

Girl in danger

won a PNBA Book Award and a Pura Belpré Honor

And in its wake

Published: 11/30/2001

Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series -- Traci Sorell, Hardcover Wen Spencer a lonely boyThe true story of John Meyers and Charles Bender, who in 1911 became the first two Native pro baseball players to face off in a World Series. This picture book teaches important lessons about resilience, doing what you love in the face of injustice, and the fight for Native American representation in sports. Charles Bender grew up on the White Earth Reservation in Northwestern Minnesota. John Meyers was raised on the Cahuilla reservation in Southern