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About this book
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.Fame came again in 1992, when Geena Davis portrayed a player loosely based on Kamenshek in the hit movie A League of Their Own.
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- OL Work ID
- OL19991879W
Subjects
Baseball playersJuvenile literatureWomen baseball playersBiographyWomenBaseball, biographyHistoryBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / GeneralSPORTS & RECREATION / GeneralHISTORY / United States / GeneralAll-American Girls Professional Baseball League