Stolen Bases Why American Girls Don't Play Baseball

Name: Stolen Bases Why American Girls Don't Play Baseball
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ISBN: 9780252032820

ISBN-10: 0252032829

ISBN-13: 9780252032820

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jennifer Ring

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Far from being strictly a men's sport, baseball has long been enjoyed and played by Americans of all genders, races, and classes since it became popular in the 1830s. The game itself was invented by English girls and boys, and when it immigrated to the United States, numerous prominent women's colleges formed intramural teams and fielded intensely spirited and powerful players.Jennifer Ring questions the forces that have kept girls who want to play baseball away from the game. With the professionalization of the sport in the early twentieth century, Albert Goodwill Spalding--sporting goods magnate, baseball player, and promoter--declared baseball off limits for women and envisioned global…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 5/3/2024
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prologue: Entitlement and Its Absence



Introduction: A Quick and Dirty History of Baseball



The Girls' Game



A. G. Spalding and America's Needs



Enter Softball



How Baseball Became Manly and White



American Womanhood and Athletics



Cricket



Stolen Bases



Collegiate Women's Baseball



The Invisibility of Bias


Epilogue: What Does Equality Look Like?


Notes


Index