Title: The kid from Diamond Street
Description: Audrey Vernick and Steven Salerno have again collaborated to bring us a captivating picture book about a compelling but little-known piece of baseball history. Beginning in 1922, when Edith Houghton was only ten years old, she tried out for a women s professional baseball team, the Philadelphia Bobbies.
Subjects: Baseball players, Juvenile literature, Women baseball players, Women, united states, biography, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Girls & Women, JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / 20th Century, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Women, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Sports & Recreation / Baseball & Softball, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Sports & Recreation, Biography
Places: United States
People: Edith Houghton (1912-2013)