Buckskin, Bloomers, and Me, Johnny D. Boggs
Buckskin, Bloomers, and Me, Johnny D. Boggs
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Buckskin, Bloomers, and Me

Author: Johnny D. Boggs

Narrator: Alex Boyles

Unabridged: 6 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/03/2019

Categories: Fiction, Western


Synopsis

What’s a sixteen-year-old boy to do when he learns that his stepmother and a local judge have murdered his father and now plan to kill him, too? Well, when it’s 1906, and you can play pretty good second base, you join a barnstorming baseball team making its way across Kansas. It also helps that the team is the Kansas City National Bloomer Girls. After all, who’d look for a runaway boy disguised as a girl on a women’s team that competes against town-ball teams of male players?Of course, it’ll take more than long hair, a Spalding glove, and a quick bat to stay alive. Luckily, another Bloomer Girl, Buckskin Compton, alias Dolly Madison, is on the dodge after some shootings and beatings in Wyoming—and he takes the kid under his tutelage.Staying alive won’t prove easy for either of the reluctant female impersonators as they deal with a budding romance, hitting slumps, a crooked manager, bean balls, drunken teammates, bank robbers, lousy umpires, a revolution for women’s rights, and a rapidly changing Western frontier. Baseball isn’t always fun and games—especially when one bad play might leave the both of you cut from the Bloomer Girls … or just plain dead.In a novel very loosely based on fact (Bloomer Girls teams of mostly women players did barnstorm across the country in the early 1900s), eight-time Spur Award winner Johnny D. Boggs blends America’s pastime with the American frontier. This episodic, tongue-in-cheek adventure showcases what made, and still makes, America and the Wild, Wild West great: Strong heroes. Stronger women. And a good, clean game.

About Johnny D. Boggs

Johnny D. Boggs has worked cattle, been bucked off horses, shot rapids in a canoe, hiked across mountains and deserts, traipsed around ghost towns, and spent hours poring over microfilm in library archives—all in the name of finding a good story. He has won nine Spur Awards, making him the all-time leader in Western Writers of America’s history.

About Alex Boyles

Alex Boyles has been acting pretty much his entire life. He got his BA in theater–acting/directing performance from CSU Long Beach and his MFA in acting performance from Ohio State University. He started narrating audiobooks in 2019 and hasn’t looked back!


Reviews

Goodreads review by Gerald

Clever writing by this author. Humorus approach to baseball in the west of 1906-1907. The main character is only a teenager but the book is for a more mature readership. Give this one a try, you won't be disappointed.......more

Goodreads review by Timm

Good ball book Fun and entertaining read. I did enjoy the authors writing style and homespun humor. I still chuckle when I think of some of the situations in the book.......more

Goodreads review by Gerald

This is one of the best books by Johnny it reminds me so much of my days playing sandlot and little league. I just really enjoyed this as a baseball book. The history of baseball in the 1800's are represented by this author in this story. The baseball team from General Custer's troops might have won......more