![]() ![]() Shenice is compelled to seek answers, but the more she focuses on the past, the more she puts her future at risk. He tells her the story of her great-grandfather’s rise from the Negro Leagues to the majors and how racial prejudice played a part in his being framed for the theft of a famous baseball glove. ![]() After a devastating loss, her father shows her memorabilia from her family’s baseball lineage, which spurs a trip to visit her great-uncle Jack. Twelve-year-old Shenice “Lightning” Lockwood has baseball in her veins and plans to lead her all-Black fast-pitch softball team (a first in the Dixie Youth Softball Association), the Fulton Firebirds, to victory at the district championship. A girl with a family baseball legacy that’s a weight on her shoulders attempts to clear the name of her great-grandfather and win a historic title for her team. ![]()
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