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 | | This fictional story is based on the women's baseball league which existed from 1943 to 1954, with teams in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota. |
 | | Although Margaret and her family are fictional, the details of the game itself are all true, culled from news articles and interviews with former team members, who are pictured in photographs on the book's endpapers. |
 | | The fictional mining town of Rumpus Ridge, Wisconsin, populated by pigs, has one claim to fame: the collected effort of generations of young piglets has resulted in the largest ball of string in the world. |
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