Book 2016

The kid from Diamond Street

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language: English
Published: 2016

Baseball players
Juvenile literature
Women baseball players

Audrey Vernick and Steven Salerno have again collaborated to bring us a captivating picture book about a compelling but little-known piece of baseball history. Beginning in 1922, when Edith Houghton was only ten years old, she tried out for a women s professional baseball team, the Philadelphia Bobbies.