Take Me Out To The Ballgame (again)

We were at the library today, and I stumbled upon this book, almost passed it by since the boys will NOT be playing pigtails, but something made me stop. Then Jack looks over and pipes up "Look, it's Aunt Livvy's team!"

This is a pretty cute book, prompted by the author seeing League Of Their Own and listening to the lyrics for Take Me Out To The Ballgame - how many times have you heard it? Did you realize it was a girl asking for the game to be their date rather than a show? Anyway, I looked it up, and there were actually two versions, both about girls who loved to play baseball. So, there.

Just in case you don't know, my beloved Great Aunt Libby (Elizabeth Mahon, South Bend Blue Sox) played pro ball for 9 years in the league depicted in the movie. Here are the websites for AAGPBL and a good baseball history site, if you're interested :-)

http://www.aagpbl.org/

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/po_stmo.shtml

It's all in the cards

The boys' t-ball cards arrived in the mail today - some things just shriek 'they're growing up', eh? I'm trying to find a way to display them beside "Aunt Livvy's" (Libby's) card or something else that will be cute. Anyone have experience? All the 'stats' are on the back of the cards, and it's just too sweet. Grandparents, they'll be in the mail tomorrow :-)

Take Me Out To The Ballgame

My Great-Aunt Libby played professional baseball during WWII in the league portrayed in A League of Their Own and this picture is in their room

The other day they picked up her glove and started posing and dreaming about playing T-ball which starts in a few weeks!

You can read Aunt Libby's biography and learn about the league here:
http://www.aagpbl.org/articles/biographies.cfm?ID=15