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“Girls couldn't play baseball, or can they?“ This quote challenges the stereotypes of people thinking girls can't do things.

I would use this book in my classroom to discuss women's rights and determination.

This story was published in 2003 and is historical fiction. This book tells the story of a girl who didn't love all of the things a “normal“ girl should love back in the 1940's. She loved baseball instead but no one let girls play baseball. So, she made a league of her one and how she might have played for the first ever All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

From being told to be something that she is wasn't, to changing the world, Katie Casey was a symbol of what 1940‘s baseball is all about. This HF award-winning (ALA Amelia Bloomer Selection) book follows the baseball crazed Katie through the time before and during WWII and how she changed minds. Finally, no one would ask “what good baseball was to a girl”, because “they were all too busy talking about how good girls were for baseball.”

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I am very surprised at all of the picture books you can find on how women began to play baseball. It makes me wonder which one is the most accurate.

#LetsTravelJuly Day 12: The story‘s setting is in the #1940s – a time when most of the young men are out fighting the war, leaving the women to do most of the work that they usually assume – including baseball! An opportunity has now presented itself. What entertained me, most of all, was how baseball was initially packaged as a feminine activity to make it acceptable for women to play it. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-kbk

" did you know that one of America's favorite songs, Take Me Out to the Ballgame, was written about a girl?

The pictures were extremely vibrant and made me want to go to a ball game!

This is such a good book about feminism and women's past in sports like baseball. I really did enjoy reading this book because it would be a great activity to read to children and teach them that anybody can do anything that they put their minds too.

RATING 5/5

HISTORICAL FICTIONN

Katie Casey is determined to help start the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League! This gave women the opportunity to play professional baseball during the time that the men were fighting in World War 2. This is a wonder HF book that sparks so much inspiration in the lives of young women. This book would be a great IR. #UCFLAE3414f17.

Players in Pigtails is a HF RA picture book written by Shana Corey. This book is about the rising of women‘s role in baseball during the war, and how that made a big impact on how girls were viewed back when no one thought women could play sports. I would use UDL principle 3.2 and esol strategy 50 to learn more about women‘s suffrage in America.