Drawing on newspaper articles, Cooperstown resources, contemporary accounts, letters, and interviews, this copiously footnoted history considers class, gender, and racial issues as it asks why women's participation in baseball has been so effectively erased from American memory. Library Journal
An Unlikely Convergence: Victorian Ladies and the National Sport of Baseball Baseball at the Early Women's Colleges Women's Own Semi-Professional and Professional Baseball Teams in the Late 1800s and Early 1900s Turn of the Century Women Pioneers in Men's Minor and Major League Baseball Women Stars in Exhibition Baseball Games in the 1930s and 1940s Little League: Yes, Virginia, Little Girls Were Allowed to Play Baseball before 1974 Women in the Negro Leagues: Effa Manley, Owner, and Toni Stone, Player World War II: The All American Girls' Professional Baseball League Profiles of Some All American Girls' Professional Baseball Players "Never Say Die": Allington's World Champion All Americans 1954-1957 Epilogue: The Current Ambiguity about Women's Role in Baseball Appendix: Additional Sources for Information on Women and Baseball Index
GAI INGHAM BERLAGE is a Professor of Sociology, Iona College, and the author of numerous articles on women in sports.
?A veritable treasure trove of facts about women in baseball.?-The
San Francisco Review of Books
?An interesting and readable book that is also a well-crafted piece
of meticulous and copiously footnoted scholarship... Berlage
artfully documents the style, spirit, sheer talent, and intestinal
fortitude these women used to carve out a niche for themselves in
baseball.?-Nine: A Journal of Baseball History
?Drawing on newspaper articles, Cooperstown resources, contemporary
accounts, letters, and interviews, this...history considers class,
gender, and racial issues as it asks why women's participation in
baseball has been so effectively erased from American
memory.?-Library Journal
?The reader interested in the history of women's efforts to play
the hardball sport can do no better than to start and finish with
this volume.?-Elysian Fields Quarterly
"A veritable treasure trove of facts about women in baseball."-The
San Francisco Review of Books
"Drawing on newspaper articles, Cooperstown resources, contemporary
accounts, letters, and interviews, this...history considers class,
gender, and racial issues as it asks why women's participation in
baseball has been so effectively erased from American
memory."-Library Journal
"The reader interested in the history of women's efforts to play
the hardball sport can do no better than to start and finish with
this volume."-Elysian Fields Quarterly
"An interesting and readable book that is also a well-crafted piece
of meticulous and copiously footnoted scholarship... Berlage
artfully documents the style, spirit, sheer talent, and intestinal
fortitude these women used to carve out a niche for themselves in
baseball."-Nine: A Journal of Baseball History
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