Art-talent fairy Bess asks her fairy friends to come to a party and help make more paint so that she can finish her new painting.

Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.

Brief profiles of such hard-hitting baseball players as Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, and Hank Aaron.