SEE HER BE HER in theatres!

In partnership with Dolby Laboratories, AMC Theatres is bringing SEE HER BE HER to the big screen in 12 cities across the United States. Read more here

Grassroots Baseball: Women

Sharing the stories of the past, present and future of girls and women in baseball, on and off the field, around the globe.

Sharing the stories of girls and women in baseball, around the globe.

Grassroots Baseball celebrates the amateur game around the globe and promotes the benefits of sports in people’s lives, through baseball. Sports isn’t merely a diversion, and its influence doesn’t end at the chalk line. Playing sports offers so much more than just the final score on the field, especially in historically underserved communities, where they can empower and transform the lives of youth, minorities, and women. READ MORE

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Jean Fruth’s third book, See Her Be Her!

Companion book to the See Her Be Her documentary

Now shipping! The companion book to the See Her Be Her documentary is the third book in the Grassroots Baseball series, following the success of 2019’s Grassroots Baseball: Where Legends Begin and 2022’s Grassroots Baseball: Route 66.

See Her Be Her celebrates the 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. Also shining a light on both the constant struggle for equality and the joyful passion of baseball are profiles of pioneers like Lois Youngen, players like Kelsie Whitmore and Ayami Sato, and such women of influence as Justine Siegal and Veronica Alvarez.

Lending their perspective are Tennis Hall of Famer Billie Jean King (Foreword), Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken (Introduction), baseball writer Claire Smith (Preface), the first female to be awarded the Hall’s Career Excellence Award, and Maybelle Blair (Afterword), a one-time pitcher in the All-America Girls Professional Baseball League.

Hall of Fame know-how

  • “You learn discipline, you learn time, you learn to say thank you, you learn manners you learn failure, you learn how to deal with failure because this, let’s face it, this is a sport of many failures, you learn success and how to balance failure to success. We want everyone to be a Hall of Famer. Not everyone can be, but we can each be a great teammate.”  

    Hall of Famer, Jim Thome

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Hall of Fame Little League moments

  • “I lied about my age. I was an 8-year old as you had to be nine to play. I made my mom take me. They found out. I went home and cried, and then played the next year. I pitched a perfect game when I was 12. The umpire missed the call on what should have been the final pitch, but I still ended it by ringing up the hitter. I’ll never forget it.”

    Hall of Famer, Tom Seaver

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