Making my pitch: a woman's baseball odyssey
Tells the story of Ila Jane Borders, who despite formidable obstacles became a Little League prodigy, MVP of her otherwise all-male middle school and high school teams, the first woman awarded a college baseball scholarship, the first to pitch and win a complete men's collegiate game, and the first woman since the modern era to play men's professional baseball and win a professional baseball game. Borders had to find ways to fit in with her teammates, reassure their wives and girlfriends, work …
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- Full title :Making my pitch : a woman's baseball odyssey / Ila Jane Borders with Jean Hastings Ardell ; foreword by Mike Veeck.
Summary
Tells the story of Ila Jane Borders, who despite formidable obstacles became a Little League prodigy, MVP of her otherwise all-male middle school and high school teams, the first woman awarded a college baseball scholarship, the first to pitch and win a complete men's collegiate game, and the first woman since the modern era to play men's professional baseball and win a professional baseball game. Borders had to find ways to fit in with her teammates, reassure their wives and girlfriends, work with the media, and fend off groupies. But these weren't the toughest challenges. She had a troubled family life, a difficult adolescence as she struggled with her sexual orientation, and an emotionally fraught college experience as a closeted gay athlete at a Christian university. Borders shows what it's like to be the only woman on the team bus, in the clubhouse, and on the field. Her story encompasses the loneliness of a groundbreaking pioneer who experienced grave personal loss. She ultimately relates how she achieved self-acceptance and created a life as a firefighter and paramedic and as a coach and goodwill ambassador for the game of baseball. --Adapted from publisher description.
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- Publication Date:©2017
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Nebraska Press
- Place of Publication:Lincoln
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2017
The Physical Object
- Description:xix, 224 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1496214056, 9781496214058
- oclc:on1063784126
- LC Classification:GV865.B675
- Dewey Decimal:796.357092
Table of Contents
Beginnings: Little League -- Lipstick adolescence -- College: pitching through adversity -- Mike Veeck and the St. Paul Saints -- Duluth-Superior Dukes: being "Babe" -- The Dukes: nailing a win -- Another team, another town -- Out of the game -- Loss.
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