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Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"No Crying in Baseball is a rollicking, revelatory deep dive into a one of a kind film. Before A League of Their Own, few American girls could imagine themselves playing professional ball (and doing it better than the boys). But Penny Marshall's genre outlier became an instant classic and significant aha moment for countless young women who saw that throwing like a girl was far from an insult. Part fly on the wall narrative, part immersive pop nostalgia,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Baseball is North America's favorite pastime. Millions of fans thrill to the sound, smell and electricity of the game; a game associated with men. But unknown to many, young women played the game, as hard and as well as most men, at a time when many men were away at war. They could routinely hit 240-foot home runs, slide into bases, skirts flying and bare thighs burning raw into the dirt. They were the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League....
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