Players in Pigtails (Historical Fiction)

           Katie Casey was not your typical girl. Instead of enjoying sewing and dancing like most other girls her age, she loved baseball, which at the time was mainly a man’s sport. Katie loved playing baseball and was very good at it even though she wasn’t always supported by the world around her. Eventually she realized she wasn’t the only girl in America who loved baseball and she ended up joining a team of all girl baseball players whom were pretty good at playing, much to the surprise of many Americans.

            I think this is a great book to read to students to bring up the subject of stereotypes because baseball is usually stereotyped as a man’s sport. I would then have my students think of other stereotypes that they know aren’t always true to their stereotypes such as teacher’s only being women. Just because there aren’t as many male teachers as female doesn’t mean that teacher’s should be stereotyped as only for women. The same thing can be applied to nurses as well.