![]() ![]() ![]() Other scenes are hampered by characters' eerily skeletal limbs and limited emotional range. ) uses streaky pastels to portray the girl at bat in a pale pink dress and hair bows, smartly contrasting her determined expression with the rigidity of 1950s gender roles. In the best scene, Peck ( A Christmas Memory When Grandmama's cousin hurts his arm in a game one day, the girl steps in with a huge hit "just like Josh Gibson," her hero. He said his new baby would make baseballs fly, just like Josh Gibson." Grandmama does play ball "once and again" when the boys let her (possibly echoing Gibson's own exclusion from the major leagues despite his talent). Sitting with her grandmother at the kitchen table, an African-American girl repeats Grandmama's tale of how her father showed up at the hospital "with a Louisville slugger and a smile. ![]() , reviewed above) mildly girl-empowering baseball story. Identified in an endnote as the "Babe Ruth of the Negro Leagues," Josh Gibson serves as the catalyst to Johnson's ( Violet's Music ![]()
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