Research Notes for Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball: Lizzie Arlington, Alta Weiss, Lizzie Murphy, Edith Houghton, Jackie Mitchell, Babe D - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Barbara GregorichSeries:Research Notes for Women at Play #2Publish date:2013-07-20Pages:140
Language:EnglishPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformISBN-13:9781491023594ISBN-10:1491023597UPC:9781491023594Book Category:Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:BaseballBook Topic:HistorySize:10.00 x 8.00 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SCGJ3ADNP3
This eye-opening collection of original author research materials on women pioneers in sports excites baseball fans and historians as well as English teachers and fans interested in the brassy, sassy women who had the audacity to play on men's baseball teams rather than on bloomer girl teams. Among them:
- Alta Weiss, the Ohio-born future doctor whose father bought her a baseball team so she...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformISBN-13:9781491023594ISBN-10:1491023597UPC:9781491023594Book Category:Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:BaseballBook Topic:HistorySize:10.00 x 8.00 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SCGJ3ADNP3
Barbara Gregorich's baseball writing started with the well-received novel, She's on First. This story of the first female major leaguer was praised by Publishers Weekly, which wrote that "all baseball fans will appreciate Gregorich's sure feel for the game . . . the baseball scenes are crackerjack, and readers should end up wondering, 'Why not?'" After writing the fictional version of women in...
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