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My Wars Are Laid Away in BooksAlfred HabeggerBooks |
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CurveballMartha AckmannMartha Ackmann |
Curveball From the time she was a girl growing up in the shadow of Lexington Park in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Toni Stone knew she wanted to play professional baseball. There was only one problem--every card was stacked against her. Curveball tells the inspiring story of baseball's “female Jackie Robinson," a woman whose ambition, courage, and raw talent propelled her from ragtag teams barnstorming across the Dakotas to playing in front of large crowds at Yankee Stadium. Toni Stone was the first woman to play professional baseball on men's teams. After Robinson integrated the major leagues and other black players slowly began to follow, Stone seized an unprecedented opportunity to play professional baseball in the Negro League. She replaced Hank Aaron as the star infielder for the Indianapolis Clowns and later signed with the legendary Kansas City Monarchs. Playing alongside some of the premier athletes of all time including Ernie Banks, Willie Mays, Buck O'Neil, and Satchel Paige, Toni let her talent speak for itself. Curveball chronicles Toni Stone's remarkable career facing down not... |
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The Mercury 13 The Untold Story ofThirteen American Women and the Dream of Space FlightMartha AckmannBooks |
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Martha Ackmann'sCurveball M.
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Gudrun Grabher, Roland Hagenbuchle, Cristanne MillerAmazon.comBooks |
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Biography - Ackmann, Martha (A.) (1951-)Gale Reference TeamBooks |
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Maid as MuseA�fe MurrayBooks |
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Emily DickinsonConnie Ann KirkBooks |
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The Mercury 13 Martha Ackmann
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Mercury 13Martha AckmannBooks |
The Mercury 13 In 1961, just as NASA launched its first man into space, a group of women underwent secret testing in the hopes of becoming America's first female astronauts. They passed the same battery of tests at the legendary Lovelace Foundation as did the Mercury 7 astronauts, but they were summarily dismissed by the boys' club at NASA and on Capitol Hill. The USSR sent its first woman into space in 1963; the United States did not follow suit for another twenty years. For the first time, Martha Ackmann tells the story of the dramatic events surrounding these thirteen remarkable women, all crackerjack pilots and patriots who sometimes sacrificed jobs and marriages for a chance to participate in America's space race against the Soviet Union. In addition to talking extensively to these women, Ackmann interviewed Chuck Yeager, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, and others at NASA and in the White House with firsthand knowledge of the program, and includes here never-before-seen photographs of the Mercury 13 passing their Lovelace tests. Despite the crushing disappointment of watching their dreams being d... |
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LEGACY, A JOURNAL OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS Volume 2, Number 2 Martha
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