| Description |
xix, 130 pages, 16 unnumbered pages, 94 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm |
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| Study Program |
AR UG RL 6.5 PTS 14 188185. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Prologue -- Little beginnings -- Lipstick adolescence -- College: pitching through adversity -- Mike Veeck and the St. Paul Saints -- Duluth-Superior Dukes: being "Babe" -- The Dukes: nailing a win -- Another team, another town -- Out of the game -- Loss -- Epilogue. |
| Indexed In: |
Junior Library Guild |
| Summary |
Ila Jane Borders, despite formidable obstacles, became a Little League prodigy, MVP of her otherwise all-male middle school and high school teams, the first woman awarded a baseball scholarship, and the first to pitch and win a complete men's collegiate game. |
| Audience |
Ages 14 & up. |
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Grades 9 & up. |
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920L Lexile. |
| Awards |
A Junior Library Guild selection (JLG) |
| Subject |
Memoir.
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Borders, Ila Jane, 1975- -- Juvenile literature.
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Borders, Ila Jane, 1975-
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Borders, Ila Jane, 1975-
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Pitchers (Baseball) -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Women baseball players -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Pitchers (Baseball) -- United States -- Biography.
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Women baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
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Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Ardell, Jean Hastings, 1943- author.
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Veeck, Mike, writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9780803285309 (hardcover) : 27.00 |
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