In the News
July 31 2026 • The Guardian
Ayami Sato, the greatest pitcher in women’s baseball, is ready for her American debut
July 31 2026 • USA Today / Bob Nightingale
New Women's Professional Baseball League is looking like 'a movement’
July 21 2026 • Let’s Talk Ladies podcast with M.B. Roberts
Jean Fruth on breaking barriers in sports photography and the rise of women's sports
March 21 2026 • Aspen Times
Aspen hosts an eve of storytelling with famed sports photographer
Jean Fruth’s third book, See Her Be Her!
Companion book to the See Her Be Her documentary
Now shipping! The companion book to the See Her Be Her documentary is the third book in the Grassroots Baseball series, following the success of 2019’s Grassroots Baseball: Where Legends Begin and 2022’s Grassroots Baseball: Route 66.
See Her Be Her celebrates the women of baseball, from the glorious past of the players made famous by Penny Marshall’s A League of Their Own, to the ongoing exploits of the most talented females in the game today, to the very real possibility that a woman will one day make her major league debut.
Photographer Jean Fruth traveled the globe, shooting on three continents and assembling the over 250 strikingly beautiful photos that illustrate this book. Also shining a light on both the constant struggle for equality and the joyful passion of baseball are profiles of pioneers like Lois Youngen, players like Kelsie Whitmore and Ayami Sato, and such women of influence as Justine Siegal and Veronica Alvarez.
Lending their perspective are Tennis Hall of Famer Billie Jean King (Foreword), Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken (Introduction), baseball writer Claire Smith (Preface), the first female to be awarded the Hall’s Career Excellence Award, and Maybelle Blair (Afterword), a one-time pitcher in the All-America Girls Professional Baseball League.