It is the World Championship of 1946. The Belles, Margaret's favorite team are playing the Rockford Peaches. No one has scored yet and it is in the bottom of the 14th inning. Margaret and her family are on the edges of their seats in the stands, waiting for the Belles to score. Margaret is cheering for her favorite player, Sophie Kurys, to bring the game home for their hometown. Margaret dreams of becoming a baseball player like Sophie who does not seem to mind sores on her knees and a little dirt on her skirt. It is in the time in America when women did not wear pants too often, not even to sports. Margaret does not mind that, just as long as she becomes a field-hustling, dirt-slinging, skirt-wearing second baser like Sophie Kurys. ( )

A short but exciting book about women's professional baseball in the 1940's. The league was started by Philip Wrigley during World War 2 to sustain public interest in the sport of baseball while many men, including professional baseball players, were overseas fighting. The book is all excitement and victory; it has an uplifting tone and many interesting action verbs and stimulating adjectives. A great book for teachers to use for vocabulary building and as an example of descriptive writing. I'm not a huge baseball fan, but it was fun to read about a girl with scabby knees who is. ( )

Margaret and her family are at a baseball World Series game in 1946 and the players are women from the All American Girls Professional Baseball League. I had watched A League of Their Own as a child and it was really neat to see that story presented in a picture book. This story took place in a post World War 2 America and Margaret is illustrated with a peace sign, but since its WW2 the V stands for Victory and not peace. I thought that was an interesting to connect history through an illustration. ( )

I Love the inspiration in this book for young girls to do whatever they set their minds to. Some view baseball as a male sport but these girls went out there and showed them girls can go anything boys can do. I think that is a huge theme in the book as well. Girls can make big things happen.I love how the author provided images of the women who played in the 40s championship.The illustration throughout the book was wonderful i liked the watercolor look the illustrator went with. ( )

The main idea of this book was about a championship game between two female baseball teams. It was based of the accounts and memory of some on the players. I enjoyed this book for two reason. The first one is the perspective that the story was told in gave the illusion of the read taking part in the game as a spectator. The words were a narration of the game you would hear on the radio. The second is the illustrations at the font and back of the book. They are actual pictures of the players. This gave me a better image in my head of what the women wore. ( )