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Goodreads asked Ruth Hanford Morhard:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Ruth Hanford Morhard I'd just met my now-husband Al. His mother had passed away, and I was helping him clean out her house when I noticed a large metal can of film with "Bringing Up Baseball" scrawled on the side. I was curious and asked about it. Al said it was a film the Cleveland Indians made about her baseball leagues. I wanted to see the film. There she was, directing boys decked out in replicas of Major League team uniforms. She had started the first boys baseball leagues, before the Little League. A woman did this? I needed to know more. What I found was the incredible story of a woman who left home when she was only 12, faced unimaginable hardships and founded the boys leagues to help her son, whose childhood had been scarred by his father's alcoholism and violence.

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