At 14, Alice Marble could play baseball as well as her brothers. She shagged flies after school for the slick San Francisco Seals. "Look here," said her brother Dan, a San Francisco policeman, "baseball is no game for a girl. Look at Helen Wills and Helen Jacobs. Why not lead the swell life they dogo round the world in style and just play a few tennis matches every day." Brother Dan bought his kid sister a racquet, shoved her off to Golden Gate Park's public courts.
Alice was quick to catch on. She hit...
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