Queen of the Diamond: The Lizzie Murphy Story

Author: McCully, Emily Arnold

Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Edition: Illustrated

Binding: Hardcover

Format: Picture Book

Number Of Pages: 32

Release Date: 14-02-2015

Part Number: Illustrated

Details: From a Caldecott medalist Emily Arnold McCully comes Queen of the Diamond, the story of the groundbreaking female baseball player Lizzie Murphy.

Lizzie Murphy was good at baseball. In fact, she was better than most of the boys. But she was born in 1900, and back then baseball was not a game for girls. Lizzie practiced with her brother anyway, and then she talked her way onto the local boys' team, first as a batboy, then as a player. Everyone was impressed by her hard catches and fast pitches. By the time she turned fifteen, she was playing for two different amateur boys' teams. When she turned eighteen, Lizzie did something else that women weren't supposed to do: she signed up with a professional baseball team, determined to earn her living playing the game.

EAN: 9780374300074

Package Dimensions: 10.8 x 9.3 x 0.5 inches

Languages: English