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Stolen bases : why American girls don't play baseball / Jennifer Ring.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ring, Jennifer, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball for women--United States.
- Baseball for women.
- Baseball--Social aspects--United States.
- Baseball.
- Baseball--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Prologue : entitlement and its absence
- Introduction : a quick and dirty history of baseball
- The 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
- Epilogue : what does equality look like?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-196) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780252032820
- 0252032829
- OCLC:
- 246892167
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