I never really heard of Maybelle Blair, so I was excited to read about her life and the baseball element. It was everything that I was looking for and was engaged with the story being told. It had that biographical element that I wanted and enjoyed the overall feel of this book. Kat D. Williams has a strong writing style and was glad I got to read this.

Thank you, Rowman & Littlefield, for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

I just finished All The Way: The Life of Baseball Trailblazer Maybelle Blair, by Kat D. Williams.

This book will be published on March 18, 2025.

This was a biography of former women’s baseball player Maybelle Blair. After her career in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, she was involved in A League Of Their Own, both the Perry Marshall directed film as well as the one season Amazon series.

The book focused more on her life off the field, including her efforts to preserve the league’s history, her involvement in their players association, with a lot on the obstacles she faced as a gay woman and how many lesbians there were in the league.

This was a short book, but I also found it to be the right length. A longer book would have felt like too much would have to be added just as filler, while a shorter one would have felt incomplete,

I give this book a B.

Goodreads and NetGalley require grades on a 1-5 star system. In my personal conversion system, a B equates to 3 stars. (A or A+: 5 stars, B+: 4 stars, B: 3 stars, C: 2 stars, D or F: 1 star).

This review has been posted at NetGalley, Goodreads and my blog, Mr. Book’s Book Reviews

I finished reading this on November 23, 2024.