Kammie on First :: Baseball's Dottie Kamenshek.

Dorothy Mary Kamenshek was born to immigrant parents in Norwood, Ohio. As a young girl, she played pickup games of sandlot baseball with neighborhood children; no one, however, would have suspected that at the age of seventeen she would become a star athlete at the national level. The outbreak of Wo...

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1. Verfasser: Houts, Michelle
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2014.
Schriftenreihe:Biographies for young readers.
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Zusammenfassung:Dorothy Mary Kamenshek was born to immigrant parents in Norwood, Ohio. As a young girl, she played pickup games of sandlot baseball with neighborhood children; no one, however, would have suspected that at the age of seventeen she would become a star athlete at the national level. The outbreak of World War II and the ensuing draft of able-bodied young men severely depleted the ranks of professional baseball players. In 1943, Philip K. Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs, led the initiative to establish a new league-a women's league-to fill the ballparks while the war ground on in Europe and.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (129 pages)
ISBN:9780821445112
0821445111

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