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May 21, 2019Tigard_HollyCP rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Katy Gordon has already proven to the neighborhood boys that she is just as good at baseball as they are. Actually, better. When a Little League scout recruits her after watching her pitch at a neighborhood game she doesn’t correct his assumption that she is a boy. She tries out and makes it on the team. But there is just one small thing: Girls can’t play Little League. Katy goes to the top to try to change that rule. Not gonna happen. Using the research she has already done to make her case, Katy delves into the subject of professional women baseball players for an assignment about heroes at school. Ellen Klages paints a picture of life for white, Black and Japanese American kids in the mid-1950s. In addition to the very in-depth history about women’s baseball, she thoughtfully includes bits about the space race, segregation, and the aftermath of the Japanese American concentration camps. A+