Ila Jane Borders, Jean Hastings Ardell

Making My Pitch: A Woman's Baseball Odyssey

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Produktbeschreibung

Ila Jane Borders is the first woman to win a men’s professional baseball game. She has been honored twice at the National Baseball Hall of Fame¿and was inducted in 2003 into the Baseball Reliquary’s Shrine of the Eternals. Jean Hastings Ardell¿is the author of Breaking into Baseball: Women and the National Pastime.¿Mike Veeck is a baseball executive and part owner of five teams, including the St. Paul Saints and the Charleston RiverDogs. ¿

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 160mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780803285309
• ISBN-10: 0803285302
• Artikelnr.: 45608779

Autorenporträt

Ila Jane Borders is the first woman to win a men’s professional baseball game. She has been honored twice at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and was inducted in 2003 into the Baseball Reliquary’s Shrine of the Eternals. Jean Hastings Ardell is the author of Breaking into Baseball: Women and the National Pastime. Mike Veeck is a baseball executive and part owner of five teams, including the St. Paul Saints and the Charleston RiverDogs.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Prologue
1. Beginnings: Little League
2. Lipstick Adolescence
3. College: Pitching through Adversity
4. Mike Veeck and the St. Paul Saints
5. Duluth-Superior Dukes: Being “Babe”
6. The Dukes: Nailing a Win
7. Another Team, Another Town
8. Out of the Game
9. Loss
Epilogue
Notes