Author Description

See Her Be Her celebrates the girls and women of baseball, from the glorious past of the players made famous by Penny Marshall’s A League of Their Own, to the ongoing exploits of the most talented females in the game today, to the very real possibility that a woman will one day make her major league debut. Photographer Jean Fruth traveled the globe, shooting on three continents and assembling the over 250 strikingly beautiful photos that illustrate this book. Profiles of pioneers like Lois Youngen, players like Kelsie Whitmore and Ayami Sato, and such women of influence as Justine Siegal and Veronica Alvarez shine a light on both the constant struggle for equality and the joyful passion for baseball. "There I was, a girl who was good at sports, realizing that because I was female, I could not grow up to be a baseballplayer."--Billie Jean King “My sister Elly is one reason you don’t have to convince me that women have a place in baseball." --Cal Ripken, Jr. “I had to prove, day in, day out, what I wasn’t. I wasn’t weak. I wasn't a quitter.” --Claire Smith