Kammie on First: Baseball's Dottie Kamenshek (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780821421307)

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 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.

Kammie on First is a real-life tale that will entertain and inspire young readers, both girls and boys. It is the first book in a new series, Biographies for Young Readers, from Ohio University Press.

Author: Michelle Houts
ISBN-10: 0821421301
ISBN-13: 9780821421307
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/15/2014
Pages: 148
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.98h x 7.13w x 0.31d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.7
Point Value: 3
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 175648 / Kammie on First: Baseball's Dottie Kamenshek


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 11/01/2014 pg. 129
Booklist 02/01/2015 pg. 34