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  • Buckskin, Bloomers, and Me

  • By: Johnny D. Boggs
  • Narrated by: Alex Boyles
  • Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Buckskin, Bloomers, and Me

By: Johnny D. Boggs
Narrated by: Alex Boyles
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What’s a 16-year-old boy to do when he learns that his stepmother and a local judge have murdered his father and now plan to kill him, too? Well, when it’s 1906, and you can play pretty good second base, you join a barn-storming baseball team making its way across Kansas. It also helps that the team is the Kansas City National Bloomer Girls. After all, who’d look for a runaway boy disguised as a girl on a women’s team that competes against town-ball teams of male players?

Of course, it’ll take more than long hair, a Spalding glove, and a quick bat to stay alive.

Luckily, another Bloomer Girl, Buckskin Compton, alias Dolly Madison, is on the dodge after some shootings and beatings in Wyoming - and he takes the kid under his tutelage.

Staying alive won’t prove easy for either of the reluctant female impersonators as they deal with a budding romance, hitting slumps, a crooked manager, bean balls, drunken teammates, bank robbers, lousy umpires, a revolution for women’s rights, and a rapidly changing Western frontier. Baseball isn’t always fun and games - especially when one bad play might leave the both of you cut from the Bloomer Girls or just plain dead.

In a novel very loosely based on fact (Bloomer Girls teams of mostly women players did barnstorm across the country in the early 1900s), eight-time Spur Award winner Johnny D. Boggs blends America’s pastime with the American frontier. This episodic, tongue-in-cheek adventure showcases what made, and still makes, America and the Wild, Wild West great: Strong heroes. Stronger women. And a good, clean game.

©2019 by Johnny D. Boggs (P)2019 by Blackstone Publishing
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Excellent read from start to finish!

No pun intended, Johnny D. Boggs hit another home run with this book! From the first chapter, he grabbed my attention; and he held it through the final sentence. Writing in first person, Boggs used his main character to make the story come alive. He made me forget that I was reading fiction as he pulled me into the action, riding the train and attending the ball games. I'm not a big baseball fan, but I'd recommend this story to anyone who likes to read.

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