108 Stitches: A Girl Grows Up With Baseball

With its sprawl of teams in major, minor, and independent leagues, with its narrative interwoven with our national history, with its catalog of larger-than-life characters, baseball is always a story.

The story of baseball is often told by the players and the managers whose faces we recognize. Those storytellers are always men.

But this baseball story is a girl's coming-of-age memoir.

Addie Beth Denton's 108 Stitches reminds us of the women and girls whose lives were shaped by America's nat...