A revealing look at the history of women's exclusion from America's national pastime

Jennifer Ring is a professor of political science and former director of women's studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her previous publications include The Political Consequences of Thinking: Gender and Judaism in the Work of Hannah Arendt, and articles on gender in American sports.

Acknowledgments    ix
Prologue: Entitlement and Its Absence    1
1. Introduction: A Quick and Dirty History of Baseball    15
2. The Girls' Game    31
3. A. G. Spalding and America's Needs    47
4. Enter Softball    59
5. How Baseball Became Manly and White    73
6. American Womanhood and Athletics    91
7. Cricket    102
8. Stolen Bases    116
9. Collegiate Women's Baseball    134
10. The Invisibility of Bias    151
Epilogue: What Does Equality Look Like?    169
Notes    183
Index    197