Download or read book The Belles of Baseball: The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League written by Nel Yomtov and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Belles of Baseball discusses how in the 1940s and 1950s, women broke traditional gender barriers by playing professional baseball, boosting morale during World War II and paving the way for future generations of female athletes. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.