This history of women in baseball demonstrates that, far from being
strictly a men's sport, baseball has long been enjoyed and played
by Americans of all genders, races, and classes since it became
popular in the 1830s. The game itself was invented by English girls
and boys, and when it immigrated to the United States, numerous
prominent women's colleges formed intramural teams and fielded
intensely spirited and powerful players. With the
professionalization of the sport in the late nineteenth century,
however, American boys and men shoved girls off the diamonds and
sandlots. Girls have been fighting to get back in the game ever
since. Jennifer Ring questions the forces that try to keep girls
who want to play baseball away from the game. Focusing on a history
that, unfortunately, repeats itself, Ring describes the
circumstances that twice stole baseball from American girls: once
in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and again in
the late twentieth century, after it was no longer legal to exclude
girls who wanted to play. In the early twentieth century, Albert
Goodwill Spalding--sporting goods magnate, baseball player, and
promoter--declared baseball off limits for women and envisioned
global baseball on a colonialist scale, using the American sport to
teach men from non-white races and non-European cultures to become
civilized and rational. And by the late twentieth century, baseball
had become serious business for boys and men at all levels, with
female players perceived as obstacles or detriments to rising male
players' chances of success. Stolen Bases also looks at the
backgrounds of American softball, which was originally invented by
men who wanted to keep playing baseball indoors during cold winter
months but has become the consolation sport for most female
players. Throughout her analysis, Ring searches for ways to rescue
baseball from its arrogance and sense of exclusionary entitlement.
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