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Paperback / softback. New. Disapproving scolds. Sexist condescension. Odd theories about the effect of exercise on reproductive organs. Though baseball began as a gender-neutral sport, girls and women of the nineteenth century faced many obstacles on their way to the diamond. Yet all-female nines took the field everywhere. Debra A. Shattuck pulls from newspaper accounts and hard-to-find club archives to reconstruct a forgotten era in baseball history. Her fascinating social history tracks women players who organized baseball clubs for their own enjoyment and found roster spots on men's teams. Entrepreneurs, meanwhile, packaged women's teams as entertainment, organizing leagues and barnstorming tours. If the women faced financial exploitation and indignities like playing against men in women's clothing, they and countless ballplayers like them nonetheless staked a claim to the nascent national pastime. Shattuck explores how the determination to take their turn at bat thrust female…
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Bloomer Girls: Women Baseball Pioneers Paperback - 2013
by Debra A. Shattuck
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- Title Bloomer Girls: Women Baseball Pioneers
- Author Debra A. Shattuck
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 328
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Illinois Press, IL, USA
- Date 2013
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780252081866 / 0252081862
- Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 1 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Women baseball players - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016007026
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- Booklist, 09/01/2016, Page 36
- Choice, 09/01/2017, Page 0
- Library Journal, 10/15/2016, Page 92
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