List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Baseball and American Women
1. The Dream and Its Challenges
2. Cary, 2010
3. From Cary to Caracas
Part 2. The Veterans
4. Tamara Holmes
5. Donna Mills
6. Jenny Dalton Hill
Part 3. Softball and Baseball Players
7. Tara Harbert
8. Veronica Alvarez
9. Sarah Gascon
10. Jenna Marston
Part 4. Baseball Girls
11. Malaika Underwood
12. Marti Sementelli
13. Lilly Jacobson
14. Meggie Meidlinger
Part 5. Gender Segregation, Equality, and Women’s Baseball
15. America’s Team
16. Grassroots Women’s Baseball
17. USA Baseball
Appendix A: Player Interview Questions
Appendix B: USA Baseball Women’s National Team Rosters and Current
Women’s Baseball Leagues and Teams in the United States
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
Jennifer Ring is a professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball.
“A Game of Their Own provides a reminder that although Title IX has
helped create more opportunities for girls and women in sports,
‘the segregated masculinity of baseball’ still intimidates all but
the strongest and most resilient girls and women who’ve chosen
baseball as their game.”—Bill Littlefield, on WBUR’s Only a
Game
“A Game of Their Own reveals a thrilling and too-long-hidden part
of our collective sports history. We owe Jennifer Ring a debt of
gratitude for assembling this terrific text. We owe a similar debt
to the women in these pages who fiercely and rebelliously love a
sport that for too long has refused to return their affections. I
don’t think a person can say they have a comprehensive sports
history library without the inclusion of A Game of Their Own.”—Dave
Zirin, sports editor of The Nation
“Fascinating.”—Huffington Post
"This revealing book, which makes an important contribution to
sports and women's history, will interest anyone curious about an
overlooked segment of amateur athletics."—Craig Clark, Booklist
“I would recommend the book to those interested in baseball, sports
history, gender and women’s studies but also to those who are
interested in culture and sociology and how one sport in particular
which could easily be open to girls and boys, has managed to
discriminate against girls and women for decades through tight
control, culture, and legacy.”—Ellen Bartages, AETHLON: Journal of
Sports Literature
"A Game of Their Own is an engaging and well-written chronicle of
women's baseball in the United States."—Maria J. Veri, Journal of
Sport History
"More than just the content or message, what I really believe makes
this book very good is Ring's writing. Her style captures the
emotions and heart of each player instead of just reporting on what
they did on the field. If nothing else, for that reason alone
everyone who reads baseball books should add this one to their
libraries."—Guy Who Reviews Sports Books
“Ring does not bring comfort to those comfortable with the status
quo in baseball. She raises tough questions and follows up with a
poignant account of the girls and women who must continue to fight
for their place on the field. Meticulously researched, eloquently
told.”—Jean Hastings Ardell, author of Breaking into Baseball:
Women and the National Pastime
“Jennifer Ring has written a book that fills a painful gap in
baseball history. It is so much more than the story of the playing
careers of a group of ballplayers. It is an examination, through
the words of the players themselves, of their trials and struggles
to be accepted as ballplayers.”—Leslie Heaphy, associate professor
of history at Kent State University at Stark and coeditor of
Encyclopedia of Women in Baseball
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