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Klages, Ellen. OUT OF LEFT FIELD New York : Viking, 2018 IL 5-8 ISBN: 978-0425288597
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It was the summer of 1957 and Gordon was playing in a pick-up game of baseball. A Little League baseball scout was watching Gordon’s pitching performance. He was really impressed with Gordon’s “Sunday pitch” which was unhittable. At the end of the game the scout invited Gordon to a special try-out for a Little League team. When Gordon showed up for the try-out, it didn’t go well. Gordon was actually Katy Gordon and in 1957 girls were not allowed to play Little League baseball. Katy was dismissed from the try-outs and was denied a position on the team. Katy was inspired by her school’s civil rights lessons to research the fairness of the Little League’s decision. She discovers the lost history of talented female ball-players from the past. Katy becomes determined to change people’s minds. (Dorothy Canfield Fisher Book Award 2019 - 2020) |
| SUBJECTS: All-American
Girls Professional Baseball League -- Fiction. Baseball -- Fiction. Sex role -- Fiction. Little League baseball -- Fiction. Women's rights -- Fiction. Single-parent families -- Fiction. San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction. |
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