Ruth Marini World Series Star

About the Book

In this book about Ruth Marini’s amazing professional baseball career, she battles back from a career-threatening injury. In naming this book to the Young Adult Choices List for 1987, the International Reading Association noted, “The author shows what it is like in pro ball and what it might be like to be the first female to make it.”

About the Author

Mel Cebulash grew up in Union City, New Jersey where he developed his athletic skills in schoolyard games. Rather than pursue a career in sports, he chose to write about them. Many of his published works, both fiction and non-fiction, reflect his life-long fascinatin with sports and his special interest in writing for young people.