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Breaking into Baseball
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Jean Hastings Ardell frequently writes and lectures on women’s contributions to baseball. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Sporting News, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Nine: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, and in the anthologies Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend: Women Writers on Baseball and Growing Up with Baseball: How We Loved and Played the Game. In 1999, she earned the Society for American Baseball Research/USA Today Baseball Weekly Award for Research for her article, ""Lefthander Ila Borders: Crossing Baseball’s Gender Line from Little League to the Northern League."" Ardell lives in Corona Del Mar, California, with her husband, a former first baseman for the Anaheim Angels.

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"Ardell is a major league writer, and this book is proof that she belongs in the starting lineup. Breaking into Baseball explores relationships between women and baseball in ways heretofore neglected or ignored. It is, at once, imaginative, provocative, nuanced, and empowering."--Steve Gietschier, senior managing editor of the Sporting News"Comprehensively researched and beautifully written, Breaking into Baseball tells the complex story of women and the national pastime in a compelling fashion. Ardell approaches her subject matter with passion, bringing to life the experiences of a host of women involved with every aspect of the game, in a way that is intellectually satisfying and extremely entertaining."--Roberta Newman, New York University

"In her impressive and interesting book, Jean Hastings Ardell has written the definitive account of women's roles in baseball. Ardell has uncovered a mostly hidden trove of information--baseball's own feminine mystique. Her book is a must read, especially for those who believe (erroneously) they know all there is to know about baseball."--Marvin Miller, founding director of the Major League Baseball Players Association and author of AWhole Different Ball Game: The Inside Story of the Baseball Revolution

"At last! Incontrovertible proof that women have been a crucial, integral part of baseball from its sticks-and-stones prehistory right up to today. Ardell's sharp insights on women as players, owners, umpires, and fans--on sex, money, power, feminism, and the role Baseball Annies played in baseball's long ban of black ballplayers--make this book essential for anyone who cares about baseball, women, or fairness."--Elinor Nauen, editor of Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend: Women Writers on Baseball

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