Full name: Queen of the Diamond: The Lizzie Murphy Story

Author: Emily Arnold McCully Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Children, Picture books, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780374300074 0374300070

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. Similar books: Ty Cobb by Charles C. Alexander John McGraw by Charles C. Alexander Stengel by Robert W. Creamer What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now? by Richard Ben Cramer Stan Musial by George Vecsey The Streak by Barb Rosenstock The Big Bam by Leigh Montville The Last Hero by Howard Bryant A Well-Paid Slave by Brad Snyder Lefty by Vernona Gomez The Kid by Ben Bradlee, Jr. Ted Williams by Leigh Montville Willie Mays by James S. Hirsch Sandy Koufax by Jane Leavy Clemente by David Maraniss Wonder Horse by Emily Arnold McCully Marvelous Mattie by Emily Arnold McCully Caroline's Comets by Emily Arnold McCully The Secret Cave by Emily Arnold McCully She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton