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When Women Played Hardball
(Seal Press, 1994)
Author Susan E. Johnson grew up in
Rockford, Illinois and discovered the Rockford Peaches—a
premier team in “a league of their own”--in 1950, when
she was ten years old. Four decades later she
interviewed her heroines and wrote When Women Played
Hardball (Seal Press, 1994). Billie Jean King
loved the book, “The excitement I felt reading When
Women Played Hardball was the excitement of
discovering one’s roots, when a handful of athletic,
competitive women who loved to play baseball, got to
play real baseball, for money! I recognize the
struggle, the pain, and especially, the joy. Susan
Johnson has created a literary grand slam!” |