Women in Baseball The Forgotten History

Name: Women in Baseball The Forgotten History
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ISBN: 9780275947354

ISBN-10: 0275947351

ISBN-13: 9780275947354

Edition: 1994

Authors: Gai I. Berlage, Charley Gerard

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In 1974, when the Supreme Court forced Little League to change its charter and permit girls to play baseball on boys' teams, feminists cheered, heralding the decision as a significant victory. How short their memories were! Had investigators only looked to baseball history, they would have learned, much to their surprise, that women had been avidly playing baseball for over a hundred years--as far back as 1866. In 1928, one female Indiana player helped lead her team to the state championship and on to the national tournament in American League Junior Baseball. And during World War II, Wrigley started the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. In fact, not until 1952 was there a…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 2/23/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.56" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English



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