# The Goof that Won the Pennant

**Author:** Jonah Kalb
**Grade range:** Grades 4–8
**Age range:** 9–13
**First published:** 1976
**Page count:** 103
**Genre:** Realistic Fiction
**ISBN-13:** `9780395248348`
**ISBN-10:** `0395248345`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/the-goof-that-won-the-pennant
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

The young players on a baseball team who are developing a taste for winning take advantage of a once-in-a-lifetime error.

## Themes

- baseball
- baseball, fiction

## Where this book is assigned

### Young Hoosier Book Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1981 winner (General)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1981 winner (General)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1981 winner (General)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1981 winner (General)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Indiana — [source: Indiana Library Federation — Young Hoosier Book Award past winners, 1981 winner (General)](https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ilfonline.org/resource/resmgr/yhba/yhba_pastwinners.pdf)

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