A Look Inside 1991 Sports Educational

I wrote a post about this book in February.  Sports Educational was one of the many guides and magazines that included baseball cards.  

This one had one for Ryne Sandberg.  When I wrote the post I had just the card.  Since then I've acquired the entire book.  I was curious what the inside looked like.

Sports Educational put out workbooks like this for each of the four major sports.  The book contains a series of educational activities  The teacher in me wanted to see them.  How educational were they?  What grade level?

Here's the first two pages.  The listing of editions doesn't mention basketball, but there is a basketball workbook that has Magic Johnson on the cover.

Here's the table of contents and information about the author and editor, a husband and wife team.  Layton Revel went on to be the founder of the Center for Negro League Baseball Research.

These two pages tell you what the workbook is all about.  The basic concept is that you have been awarded a new MLB franchise and you have a number of activities to do to get your team up and running.

You start by getting a telegram from the commissioner.  Sorry, but in 1991 no one was getting telegrams.  It probably would have been a fax.

You have to pick your team location and name to get started... a little geography lesson.

More geography!

Time to do some math as you think about which players to add to your team.

These are some reading and writing activities as you work your way through the book.

I scanned just a sample of the pages, but I think you get the idea.  I'd peg this to be around a 4th - 6th grade book.  I know several other bloggers are in education.  Does that seem right?

From the looks of this I'd say the book was self-published by the Revels.  Today a teacher would make this on their computer and then offer it on Teachers Pay Teachers.

But that means you wouldn't get the baseball cards, so there's something to be said for the old-school paper version.