The sweetheart season
Subtitle: a novel
By: Karen Joy Fowler.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: H. Holt
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.; Women baseball players -- Fiction.; Sports sponsorship -- Fiction.; Minnesota -- Fiction.
Description: Though most men had returned to their hometowns after World War II, few came back to the tiny village of Magrit, Minnesota. Irini, a nineteen year-old woman, works in the Scientific Kitchen at Margaret Mill, a cereal factory, with most of Magrit's other eligible bachelorettes. Hoping to promote his business and attract some suitors for his staff, the owner of the mill forms a women's baseball team called the Sweetwheat Sweethearts. Irini, who wields a fearsome throwing arm, strong from kneading bread dough, is the team's star center fielder and her successes, failures, and revelations on and off the ball field are endearingly recalled by her now grown daughter.
Notes: "A Marian Wood book."