Kammie on first

By Michelle Houts

Subjects: Juvenile literature, Biography, Women, Baseball players, Women baseball players, Baseball, biography, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, HISTORY / United States / General, History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General

Description: 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.