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Cargando... Bloomer Girls: Women Baseball Pioneers (Sport and Society)por Debra A Shattuck
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Bloomer Girls by Debra A. Shattuck is an interesting non-fiction book about the women who played baseball in the nineteenth century, I was fascinated with the information about these women because I had never heard of women playing baseball before the twentieth century. However, this book is more of an academic thesis on how baseball became a man's sport and the history of female players was wiped away. Therefore, it is a harder book to read than I was expecting because it's not telling the story of these players and bringing the reader to the playing field but proving a point. I do believe though that the book is a success in regards to proving its point, All in all, the data is fascinating but the book is for academia, in my opinion. This identical review is on www.netgalley.com sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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While, I'm not much a baseball fan, I am interested in women's history, which is why I picked this up. I had been under the impression that the book would talk more about the lives of women baseball players than it actually did. That's on me though, for reading what I wanted into the book's description. Nonetheless, I enjoyed the book and the stories it told. There was an anecdote about one of Wilson's teams being arrested in my hometown for playing on a Sunday. Given my town's conservative bent today, this wasn't particularly surprising. The titular Bloomer Girls don't make an appearance until the final chapter of the book, as those teams weren't formed until the mid-1890s. I recommend this book to anyone interested in the history of baseball or women's history, as this is an important work in both fields. ( )