Title Kammie on First : Baseball's Dottie Kamenshek.

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Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2014.

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Description	1 online resource (129 pages).
Series	Biographies for Young Readers
	Biographies for young readers.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.7 3 175648.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	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.
Subject	Kamenshek, Dorothy, 1925-2010.
	All-American Girls Professional Baseball League -- History.
	Kamenshek, Dorothy, 1925-2010. (OCoLC)fst01944774
	All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. (OCoLC)fst00676538
	Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
	Women baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
	GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
	SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
	SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
	SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
	SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
	TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
	Baseball players. (OCoLC)fst00828007
	Women baseball players. (OCoLC)fst01177347
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Houts, Michelle. Kammie on First : Baseball's Dottie Kamenshek. Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, ©2014
ISBN	9780821445112 (electronic bk.)
	0821445111 (electronic bk.)

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