No girls in the clubhouse : the exclusion of women from baseball /
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| Author / Creator: | Cohen, Marilyn, 1952- |
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| Imprint: | Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., ©2009. |
| Description: | 1 online resource ( x, 218 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12643386 |
Table of Contents:
- The exclusion of women from professional baseball. Patriarchal myths ; "Contraband pleasure" : Victorian era baseball, 1866-1890 ; "Playing to the surprise and delight of the crowd" : Bloomer girls and barnstorming exhibition players, 1890-1935 ; "More than the usual variety of curves" : the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, 1943-1954 ; "A woman has her dreams too" : three women players in the professional Negro American League, 1952-1954
- "Do something momentous" : the Florida Sun Sox (1984) and the Colorado Silver Bullets 91994-1997) ; "But Ila's for real" : Ila Borders, 1985-2000
- The exclusion of girls and women from amateur baseball. He-sport and she-sport : the origins and infrastructure of gender exclusion in amateur baseball ; "It's baseball lib" : Little League Baseball and public Americana, 1939-1974.
