Title:
Stolen bases : why American girls don't play baseball / Jennifer Ring.
Author:
Ring, Jennifer, 1948-
Publication Information:
Urbana : University Of Illinois Press, [2013], ©2009.
Call Number:
GV880.7 .R56 2013
Abstract:
Looks at American softball, which was originally invented by men who wanted to keep playing baseball indoors during cold winter months but has become the consolation sport for most female players. Throughout her analysis, Ring searches for ways to rescue baseball from its arrogance and exclusionary entitlement and to restore the great American sport's more optimistic nickname: the people's game.
ISBN:
9780252079153
Physical Description:
xi, 200 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
General Note:
Originally published in 2009.
Contents:
A Quick and Dirty History of Baseball -- 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.
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