Bloomer Girls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bloomer Girls write by Debra A Shattuck. This book was released on 2017-01-18. Bloomer Girls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 even 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 players into narratives of the women's rights movement and transformed perceptions of women's physical and mental capacity. Vivid and eye-opening, Bloomer Girls is a first-of-its-kind portrait of America, its women, and its game.
The Bloomer Girls
The Bloomer Girls - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bloomer Girls write by Charles Neilson Gattey. This book was released on 1967. The Bloomer Girls available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Bloomer Girls; Or, Courtship in the Twentieth Century
Bloomer Girls; Or, Courtship in the Twentieth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bloomer Girls; Or, Courtship in the Twentieth Century write by John Arthur Fraser. This book was released on 1896. Bloomer Girls; Or, Courtship in the Twentieth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball
Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball write by Leslie A. Heaphy. This book was released on 2016-03-15. Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Women have been involved in baseball from the game's early days, in a wide range of capacities. This ambitious encyclopedia provides information on women players, managers, teams, leagues, and issues since the mid-19th century. Players are listed by maiden name with married name, when known, in parentheses. Information provided includes birth date, death date, team, dates of play, career statistics and brief biographical notes when available. Related entries are noted for easy cross-reference. Appendices include the rosters of the World War II era All American Girls Professional Baseball League teams; the standings and championships from the AAGPBL; and all women's baseball teams and players identified to date.
Buckskin, Bloomers, and Me
Buckskin, Bloomers, and Me - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buckskin, Bloomers, and Me write by Johnny D. Boggs. This book was released on 2019-12-03. Buckskin, Bloomers, and Me available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What’s a sixteen-year-old boy to do when he learns that his stepmother and a local judge have murdered his father and now plan to kill him, too? Well, when it’s 1906, and you can play pretty good second base, you join a barnstorming baseball team making its way across Kansas. It also helps that the team is the Kansas City National Bloomer Girls. After all, who’d look for a runaway boy disguised as a girl on a women’s team that competes against town-ball teams of male players? Of course, it’ll take more than long hair, a Spalding glove, and a quick bat to stay alive. Luckily, another Bloomer Girl, Buckskin Compton, alias Dolly Madison, is on the dodge after some shootings and beatings in Wyoming—and he takes the kid under his tutelage. Staying alive won’t prove easy for either of the reluctant female impersonators as they deal with a budding romance, hitting slumps, a crooked manager, bean balls, drunken teammates, bank robbers, lousy umpires, a revolution for women’s rights, and a rapidly changing Western frontier. Baseball isn’t always fun and games—especially when one bad play might leave the both of you cut from the Bloomer Girls ... or just plain dead. In a novel very loosely based on fact (Bloomer Girls teams of mostly women players did barnstorm across the country in the early 1900s), eight-time Spur Award winner Johnny D. Boggs blends America’s pastime with the American frontier. This episodic, tongue-in-cheek adventure showcases what made, and still makes, America and the Wild, Wild West great: Strong heroes. Stronger women. And a good, clean game.
