This work reconstructs the history of women's baseball in the United States, from the mid-19th century to the 1950s. It includes chapters on the esablishment of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League, women in the Negro Leagues, and profiles of the major players throughout the history of women's professional baseball.
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The reader of this book quickly realizes that the history of women in baseball has been little written about because there hasn't been much. Baseball became a sport at women's colleges almost simultaneously with the development of professional men's baseball. But 19th-century college authorities initially discouraged and then prohibited intercollegiate games, so baseball never became a major campus sport. There was also pressure on women to play softball instead of hardball. Then, between 1943 and 1954 the short-lived All American Girls Baseball League in the Chicago area played an amalgam of softball and hardball. Berlage, a sociology professor at Iona College in New York, has done prodigious research to uncover the few women who played semi-pro ball, but the results, especially given his pedestrian writing, hardly justify his efforts. Illustrations not seen by PW.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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Berlage (sociology, Iona Coll.) has written a scholarly counterpart to Barbara Gregorich's more popular Women at Play ( LJ 5/1/93), covering the same time period (1866-1992) and many of the same personalities. 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. Originating in Ivy League women's colleges, the sport enjoyed its greatest female participation during the Victorian era and World War II. In 1974, it took a Supreme Court order to integrate Little League, which reacted by forming softball divisions. Thirty photos, an index (not seen), and an appendix listing special collections complete the book. For academic libraries.
- Kathy Ruffle, Coll. of New Caledonia Lib., Prince George, B.C.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
- Kathy Ruffle, Coll. of New Caledonia Lib., Prince George, B.C.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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This book on the history of women who have played baseball in the US, starting with college "nines" at Vassar, is well footnoted and documented, with an index. At the same time, the book is a bit dry, the writing more scholarly than popular. Still, for anybody interested in the history of women who have played baseball, this book is worth reading.
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women playing baseball, woman umpire, baseball exhibit, junior baseball, college archivist, barnstorming team, professional baseball league, baseball days, versatile player, batting crown, women players Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Little League, Bloomer Girls, American Legion, Margaret Gisolo, Amanda Clement, Effa Manley, Babe Ruth, South Bend, Blue Sox, United States, Daily Clintonian, New Jersey, Smith College, Josie Caruso, Fort Wayne Daisies, Jackie Mitchell, Mount Holyoke, World War, Alta Weiss, Babe Didrikson, Ruth Richard, American League, Dottie Schroeder, Player of the Year New!
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women playing baseball, woman umpire, baseball exhibit, junior baseball, college archivist, barnstorming team, professional baseball league, baseball days, versatile player, batting crown, women players Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Little League, Bloomer Girls, American Legion, Margaret Gisolo, Amanda Clement, Effa Manley, Babe Ruth, South Bend, Blue Sox, United States, Daily Clintonian, New Jersey, Smith College, Josie Caruso, Fort Wayne Daisies, Jackie Mitchell, Mount Holyoke, World War, Alta Weiss, Babe Didrikson, Ruth Richard, American League, Dottie Schroeder, Player of the Year New!
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