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, as well as works in political theory and gender and identity politics.
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