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ID: 423548
Title: Buckskin, Bloomers, and Me
Author: Johnny D. Boggs
Narrator: Alex Boyles
Format: Unabridged
Length: 06:03:07
Language: English
Release date: 12-03-19
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Fiction & Literature, Western
Summary:
Whats a sixteen-year-old boy to do when he learns that his stepmother and a local judge have murdered his father and now plan to kill him, too? Well, when its 1906, and you can play pretty good second base, you join a barnstorming baseball team making its way across Kansas. It also helps that the team is the Kansas City National Bloomer Girls. After all, whod look for a runaway boy disguised as a girl on a womens team that competes against town-ball teams of male players?
Of course, itll take more than long hair, a Spalding glove, and a quick bat to stay alive. Luckily, another Bloomer Girl, Buckskin Compton, alias Dolly Madison, is on the dodge after some shootings and beatings in Wyomingand he takes the kid under his tutelage.
Staying alive wont prove easy for either of the reluctant female impersonators as they deal with a budding romance, hitting slumps, a crooked manager, bean balls, drunken teammates, bank robbers, lousy umpires, a revolution for womens rights, and a rapidly changing Western frontier. Baseball isnt always fun and gamesespecially when one bad play might leave the both of you cut from the Bloomer Girls or just plain dead.
In a novel very loosely based on fact (Bloomer Girls teams of mostly women players did barnstorm across the country in the early 1900s), eight-time Spur Award winner Johnny D. Boggs blends Americas pastime with the American frontier. This episodic, tongue-in-cheek adventure showcases what made, and still makes, America and the Wild, Wild West great: Strong heroes. Stronger women. And a good, clean game.
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