It takes the average reader 4 hours and 7 minutes to read Beating the Breaks by Rick Swaine
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Few baseball fans are aware of the number of players with disabilities who have succeeded in the majors. Much of this unawareness is due to the affected players themselves who downplay weaknesses and tend to minimize their disabilities, considering them just one of the chinks in the armor that everyone must deal with. More than 20 players who have overcome their disabilities to have major league careers are profiled in this work. The book is divided by type of disability suffered: missing or partially missing limbs or extremities (Jim Abbott, Hugh "One Arm" Daily, Pete Gray, Monty Stratton,...
Beating the Breaks by Rick Swaine is 239 pages long, and a total of 61,901 words.
This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 76% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 38 minutes to read Beating the Breaks aloud.
Beating the Breaks is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.
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