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 W...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Houts, Michelle
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2014]
Series:Biographies for young readers
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Table of Contents:
  • May 1943, Wrigley Field
  • The making of an All-American
  • The league launches
  • Charmed
  • Let's play ball
  • All-Americans travel all over the Americas
  • The finest player in the league
  • Life after baseball
  • Fame came twice
  • Will there ever be another Kammie?
  • A victory celebration.