Hazel is just a normal average girl that likes to play baseball.She use to play with her dad but he got fired so he hoped on a train it was hard to find for a job in the 1930’s because The Great Depression was starting .one day she heard the boys next door she wanted to play but they did not want to play with with any girls.On April 2nd,1931 they went to go see Jackie Mitchel play the first girl to play baseball they made a bet if she could strike out Babe Ruth so then Babe Ruth got out.The next day she heard the boys play and they agreed ti let her play.