Synopses & Reviews
Review
"McCully's book is both a good all-round baseball story and an inspirational story about believing in oneself and overcoming opposition. An excellent choice." - School Library Journal
Synopsis
Lizzie Murphy was good at baseball. In fact, she was better than most of the boys. But she was born in 1900, and back then baseball was not a game for girls. Lizzie practiced with her brother anyway, and then she talked her way onto the local boys' team, first as a batboy, then as a player. Everyone was impressed by her hard catches and fast pitches. By the time she turned fifteen, she was playing for two different amateur boys' teams. When she turned eighteen, Lizzie did something else that women weren't supposed to do: she signed up with a professional baseball team, determined to earn her living playing the game.
Synopsis
From a Caldecott medalist Emily Arnold McCully comes Queen of the Diamond, the story of the groundbreaking female baseball player Lizzie Murphy.
Lizzie Murphy was good at baseball. In fact, she was better than most of the boys. But she was born in 1900, and back then baseball was not a game for girls. Lizzie practiced with her brother anyway, and then she talked her way onto the local boys' team, first as a batboy, then as a player. Everyone was impressed by her hard catches and fast pitches. By the time she turned fifteen, she was playing for two different amateur boys' teams. When she turned eighteen, Lizzie did something else that women weren't supposed to do: she signed up with a professional baseball team, determined to earn her living playing the game.
Synopsis
From the author and illustrator of
Brothers at Bat, a historical baseball picture book about a female baseball phenomenon who won spectatorsand#39; hearts in the 1930s the same way Little League superstar Moand#39; Ne Davis has today: Edith Houghton, who joined the professional womenand#39;s team the Bobbies at the age of 10.