Book cover of Kammie on First: Baseball's Dottie Kamenshek

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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.
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1 author picked Kammie on First as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I love to read (and write) about talented, dedicated females.

This middle-grade biography about Dottie Kamenshek tells of how one talented woman of many dazzled spectators in the groundbreaking All-American Girls Softball League. Her talent lifted the spirits of a nation worried about men drafted into the military to fight during World War II.

What started as a stunt to keep viewers while male players were away turned into an amazing experiment where female athletes could shine. Go Kammie!

From Marlene's list on groundbreaking women in history.

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The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

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