Girl Wonder : A Baseball Story in Nine Innings (Paperback)

from bre201

This is a story about the life of Alta Weiss. She played baseball for an all-male, semiprofessional team in the early 1900s. Alta was one of the first women to play baseball on a men's team at a time when sports like baseball were thought to be only for men.

from ShantiR

Genre: Historical Fiction Audience: 3-5th grade This is a story about a young girl who aspires to be a baseball player at a time when girls were not encouraged to play sports. I will definitely use this book to show how women entered the world of sports.

from sroslund

Alta Weiss threw her first pitch at the age of two, when she hurled a corn cob at a tomcat chasing her favorite chicken. Later, she trained all year, even throwing practice pitches in the barn in the dead of winter, while the cows stood by and watched. Later, she became the first woman to play se...

from BayleeWestrick

This historical fiction story tells about Girl Wonder, Alta Weiss. She was born to play baseball. When she was two, she threw a corncob so hard at her family cat. From then on, she was able to throw very hard. She practiced every day, no matter the weather. She heard about a semipro team and conv...

from abruser

This is the retelling of the story of the famous baseball player Alta Weiss who pitch for a semi-pro baseball team in 1907. Although it is fiction, the reader learns about Alta Weiss struggles as a female athlete. It would be a good book to use for a history lesson in famous women, and women who ...