Joseph Wallace reads from Diamond Ruby
New York author Joseph Wallace, author of several nonfiction books about baseball, tells a distinctly Brooklyn story in his first historical novel, Diamond Ruby. Based on the real-life story of sixteen-year-old Jackie Mitchell, organized baseball’s first female pitcher who struck out Yankees greats Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in 1931 (and was subsequently banned from the game which was supposedly “too strenuous” for women), Diamond Ruby chronicles the extraordinary life and times of a girl who rises from utter poverty to the kind of renown only the Roaring Twenties could bestow.
The novel is already a staff favorite and an IndieNext Pick, and Greenlight hosts a celebration of Brooklyn, baseball and storytelling with a reading and discussion with Wallace.
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