This book chronicles the history of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and the stories of the first women to play professional baseball in a league of their own. "In 1941, the world was at war, and with American men fighting overseas, the much needed pastime of professional baseball was in danger of extinction—until women stepped up to the plate." In this heartwarming illustrated history, the League's story is told by the ones who know it best: the players. Author Anika Orrock collects a variety of funny, charming, wince-worthy, and powerful vignettes told by the players themselves about their time playing the American pastime. • Features stories of grit and perseverance against all odds, told by the players themselves • Filled with player statistics, historical beats, headlines, and more; and fully illustrated in Anika's vibrant style • A visually engaging, readable women-led history book Written in an approachable manner and beautifully illustrated, The Incredible Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League is a one-of-a-kind story told through the women's own voices and their own perspectives. This book ultimately proves that the incredible women of the AAGPBL truly were in a league of their own. • A unique celebration of a specific moment in women's and sports history • A great read for experienced and new sports fans alike, readers young and old, baseball fans, and anyone looking for an inspiring gift for an aspiring professional sports player • Perfect on the shelf with books like Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky, Strong is the New Pretty by Kate T. Parker, and Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels, Trailblazers, and Visionaries who Shaped Our History . . . and Our Future! by Kate Schatz

The Incredible Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

Children's Books

Orrock, Anika

History

Chronicle Books+

Turnstyle is the journal of baseball arts and literature published by the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) and produced by SABR's Baseball Arts research committee. Turnstyle combines poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction with baseball-themed art and illustration. In Issue 2 we have an exploration of the art of Joaquin Newman, an Oakland-based artist who combined the Mexican tradition of calaveras (skeleton paintings for Day of the Dead) with baseball cards for a series of paintings, one of which graces the issue's front cover. Andrea Long writes about how baseball connected her with her father, even after his passing, and George Skornickel looks back on a special Opening Day he shared with his mother when he was young. Several writers referenced the trying circumstances of the 2020 pandemic, including Bill Nowlin's closing essay about the unique wait for 2020 Opening Day. Anika Orrock brings us a lively, and true, story of a nun who played baseball, while three members of the Moonlight Graham Society recount how each of them made their sole appearance in a professional game, a la the society's namesake. In "Ninth Inning" writer Bradley Stribling gives us a fictionalized account of a real game: a 1925 match between a Negro League ball team and a Ku Klux Klan team, while Bryan Erwin sends us deep into the gut-churning moral dilemma of a player whose split-second decision on the field may have far-reaching consequences in "The Spoiler."Thirty-six pieces in all fill the pages of Issue 2, including a baker's dozen poems, a dozen articles and autobiographical essays, seven stories, and over a dozen paintings and illustrations.

Turnstyle: The SABR Journal of Baseball Arts: Issue No. 2 (2020)

Literature & Fiction

Hulbert, Joanne

Long, Andrea

Salazar, Anthony

Skornickel, George R.

Newman, Kyle K.G.

Kinlaw, Francis

Genre Fiction

Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)

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