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Baseball diamonds are a girl's best friend. (Short Stuff).


Sure, Mia Hamm Mia Hamm (born Mariel Margaret Hamm on March 17,1972 in Selma, Alabama) is a former American soccer player. Playing for many years as a forward for the United States women's national soccer team, she scored more international goals in her career than any other player, male , Gabrielle Reese and Erica Enders could beat your brother at soccer, volleyball and drag racing drag racing

Form of motor racing in which two contestants race side by side from a standing start over a straight quarter-mile strip of pavement. Winners go on to compete against others in their class until only one is left undefeated.
. But this baseball season, it's your turn! Well, OK...maybe putting a world-class champion-style beating on the guys is a bit much for a single summer. But even if you can't beat 'em, you can impress the heck out of 'em with your major-league knowledge of the game. Lisa Martin's The Cool Chick's Guide to Baseball covers everything from the dugout dugout: see canoe.  to the outfield. You'll learn the rules of offense and defense, and all about fastballs, curveballs, knuckleballs and screwballs. Make no mistake about it, this quirky quirk  
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 read is strictly for babes from the very first line: "Baseball is like shopping." The author explains, "That's how action on the field is...like finding that thing you've been waiting on all day." If that isn't enough to convince even the strictest fashionista to check out the action at the ballpark, there's even a chapter on "Avoiding the Ballpark Bulge." Like, did you know a chili dog and ro ot beer pack a whopping 747 calories? Yikes yikes  
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Title Annotation:The Cool Chick's Guide to Baseball
Publication:Girls' Life
Article Type:Book Review
Date:Jun 1, 2003
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