{"id":316557,"date":"2026-10-29T02:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T02:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/316557\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T02:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T02:40:15","slug":"baseball-story-doubles-as-both-reading-and-history-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/316557\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball story doubles as both reading and history lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/0L5A9864-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"student prepares to swing bat&#10;\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-69798 size-large\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/0L5A9911-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"student gets ready to hit baseball\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-69800 size-large\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/0L5A9550-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"students cheer for classmates&#10;\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-69797 size-large\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>On the same day the World Series kicked off, Slingerlands Elementary School hosted its much-anticipated second annual Fourth Grade Baseball Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>After weeks of reading about the incredible life of professional baseball pitcher Mamie \u201cPeanut\u201d Johnson, fourth graders at Slingerlands Elementary School celebrated with a fall tradition inspired by Johnson\u2019s story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The students read A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie \u201cPeanut\u201d Johnson as part of their reading curriculum, learning about baseball, courage, determination and the power of pursuing a dream. The students learned about the history of segregation and the many challenges Johnson faced as she pursued her love of baseball and became the only woman to pitch in the Negro Leagues. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/history\/negro-leagues\/players\/mamie-johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Visit mlb.com to learn more about the Negro Leagues and Mamie \u201cPeanut\u201d Johnson.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s baseball tournament on Oct. 23 was played under bright blue skies on a beautiful fall day, with family members in attendance. Students encouraged one another and cheered for both teammates and opponents as they paid tribute to the professional athlete and role model they got to know in the pages of their book.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to our Slingerlands fourth-grade teachers and to the late Mamie \u201cPeanut\u201d Johnson for making this lesson a memorable one for students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the same day the World Series kicked off, Slingerlands Elementary School hosted its much-anticipated second annual Fourth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,67578],"class_list":["post-316557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-slingerlands-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}