Dirt on their Skirts

Dirt on Their Skirts: The Story Of The Young Women Who Won The World Championship.

Co-authored with Lyndall Callan;
illustrated by E.B. Lewis;
Dial Books for Young Readers, 2000.


Awards
  • Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choices
  • Top 10 Youth Sports Books, Booklist
  • Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner

“With its economy of language and telling period details, this book provides an exciting slice of sports history and an appealing bit of Americana, and vividly conveys the spirit of one great little girl.” School Library Journal

“During WWII, as men went overseas, women assumed many of their jobs; Rappaport and Callan enthusiastically invent a fictional witness to that historical moment when baseball, too, was taken over by women.” Kirkus Reviews

Women in Baseball, sports history, Rockford Peaches, Racine Belles
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