Kammie on first

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.

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

People: Dorothy Kamenshek (1925-2010)

Places: United States