![]() ![]() They were burlesque shows on a baseball diamond. His professional teams were not what you would think of as professional, really. Since he was a con artist, a sexual predator (who often preyed on the girls on his teams), and a huckster, he was in and out of prison this entire time. The only figure to get a biographical treatment in the book is Sylvester Wilson who ran a few dozen professional women’s baseball teams over the span of decades. There’s lots of statistics present in this text. Sadly, due to women often using stage names or changing their names after marriage, it’s hard to tell the stories of the individuals. This book seeks to place women back in the narrative. ![]() Thanks to the gendered narrative that baseball is a man’s game and always has been, we have largely forgotten about all the women and girls who enjoyed the game and even got paid to play in the 19th century. Bloomer Girls tells the story of women playing baseball in the 19th century. ![]()
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