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02720aam a22004698i 4500 001 9B03C3848A7111E4949CD2DEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20211216010143 008 140725s2014 ohu j b 001 0beng 010 $a 2014029645 020 $a 0821445111 020 $a 9780821445112 (pdf) 020 $a 0821421301 020 $a 9780821421307 (pb) 020 $a 0821421336 020 $a 9780821421338 (hardback) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a GV865.K317 $b H68 2014 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 084 $a HIS036000 $a SPO000000 $a HIS036000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Houts, Michelle. 245 10 $a Kammie on first : $b baseball's Dottie Kamenshek / $c Michelle Houts. 263 $a 1409 264 1 $a Athens, Ohio : $b Ohio University Press, $c 2014. 300 $a pages cm. 490 0 $a Biographies for young readers 520 $a "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, Phillip 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 the Pacific. Kamenshek was selected and assigned to the Rockford Peaches in their inaugural season and played first base for a total of ten years, becoming a seven-time All-Star and holder of two league batting titles. When injuries finally put an end to her playing days, she went on to a successful and much quieter career in physical therapy. Fame came again in 1992, when Geena Davis portrayed a player loosely based on Kamenshek in the hit movie A League of Their Own"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 600 10 $a Kamenshek, Dorothy, $d 1925-2010. 650 0 $a Baseball players $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women baseball players $z United States $v Biography. 610 20 $a All-American Girls Professional Baseball League $x History. 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SPORTS & RECREATION / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / General. $2 bisacsh 941 $a 3 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204075306.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110061226.0 952 $l KJPF566 $d 20150603012515.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9B03C3848A7111E4949CD2DEDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search