Kammie on First: Baseball's Dottie Kamenshek

by Michelle Houts

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821421301
• ISBN13: 9780821421307
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.1" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8