A review by nerfherder86
Kammie on First: Baseball’s Dottie Kamenshek by Michelle Houts

4.0

Excellent biography of a famous female ballplayer. First in new series of juvenile biographies by Ohio University Press. Kammie (at one point in 1946 there were five Dorothys on her team, so they all had different nicknames!) was the best player in the All-American Girls Baseball League, on the Rockford Peaches. She started at age 17. The character of "Dottie Henson" in the movie A League of Their Own was partly based on Kammie, and with the release of the film Kammie got a second period of fame in her life. Book is thoroughly researched, has interview sources, bibliography, notes for all of the quotations. Nice black and white photos as well as illustrations of programs and posters from the period. Chapter titles are clever, "First Inning," to "Postgame," etc.