Women Writers on Baseball
Episode 8 of the No Extra Words one person's search for story podcast, hosted by Kris Baker Dersch, titled "Women Writers on Baseball" was published on March 31, 2018 and runs 38 minutes.
March 31, 2018 ·38m · No Extra Words one person's search for story
Episode Description
Today's books are:
Squeeze Play: a novel by Jane Leavy. Doubleday, 1990. (Not pictured. In his younger days, my little baseball fan tore the cover off my copy.)
Wait Till Next Year by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Simon & Schuster, 1997.
She Loved Baseball: the Effa Manley story by Audrey Vernick. Balzer & Bray, 2010.
Other books mentioned:
Queen of the Diamond: the Lizzie Murphy story by Emily Arnold McCully. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2015.
Girl Wonder: a baseball story in nine innings by Deborah Hopkinson. Atheneum, 2003.
The Streak: how Joe DiMaggio...
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