For more than five decades, pioneering researcher Dorothy Seymour Mills has studied and written about baseball's past. With this groundbreaking book, she turns her attention to the historians, stat hounds, and many thousands of not-so-casual fans whose fascination with the game and its history, like her own, defies easy explanation. As Mills demonstrates, baseball elicits a passion--and inspires a slightly off-kilter, obsessive behavior--that is only slightly less interesting than the people who indulge it.
For more than five decades, pioneering researcher Dorothy Seymour Mills has studied and written about baseball's past. With this groundbreaking book, she turns her attention to the historians, stat hounds, and many thousands of not-so-casual fans whose fascination with the game and its history, like her own, defies easy explanation. As Mills demonstrates, baseball elicits a passion--and inspires a slightly off-kilter, obsessive behavior--that is only slightly less interesting than the people who indulge it.
The late Dorothy Seymour Mills was the author of 24 books. The first female historian in the Society for American Baseball Research, she was a member of the Association for Women in Sports Media and lived in Tucson, Arizona. Visit her website at www.dorothyjanemills.com.
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Table of Contents Foreword by Richard C. Crepeau Preface PART ONE. A MANLY PURSUIT 1. Our National Game 2. The Amateur Spirit 3. Our Heroes 4. The Pantheon 5. Go Figure 6. Is Baseball the God Game? 7. Baseball and Our Other National Sport: Business 8. Brakes on Our Pursuit PART TWO. A WOMANLY PURSUIT 9. Can Women Be Baseball Stars? 10. Girls and Women Who Excelled 11. Girls Are Children, Too 12. The Courage of Baseball Women 13. What Baseball Discrimination Is Like 14. Women Fans Follow Their Passion 15. Baseball Women of the Future Conclusion Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Foreword by Richard C. Crepeau Preface PART ONE. A MANLY PURSUIT 1. Our National Game 2. The Amateur Spirit 3. Our Heroes 4. The Pantheon 5. Go Figure 6. Is Baseball the God Game? 7. Baseball and Our Other National Sport: Business 8. Brakes on Our Pursuit PART TWO. A WOMANLY PURSUIT 9. Can Women Be Baseball Stars? 10. Girls and Women Who Excelled 11. Girls Are Children, Too 12. The Courage of Baseball Women 13. What Baseball Discrimination Is Like 14. Women Fans Follow Their Passion 15. Baseball Women of the Future Conclusion Bibliography Index
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