Chasing Baseball
by Mills, Dorothy SeymourFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-01-11
Publisher(s): McFarland Publishing
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
Writer and consultant Dorothy Seymour Mills is the author of twenty-four books. The first female historian in the Society for American Baseball Research, she is a member of the Association for Women in Sports Media. She lives in Naples, Florida.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. 1 |
| Preface | p. 5 |
| A Manly Pursuit | |
| Our National Game | p. 11 |
| The Amateur Spirit | p. 22 |
| Our Heroes | p. 36 |
| The Pantheon | p. 48 |
| Go Figure | p. 64 |
| Is Baseball the God Game? | p. 81 |
| Baseball and Our Other National Sports: Business | p. 94 |
| Brakes on Our Pursuit | p. 109 |
| A Womanly Pursuit | |
| Can woman Be Baseball Stars | p. 131 |
| Girls and Women Who Excelled | p. 144 |
| Girls Are Children, Too | p. 157 |
| The Courage of Baseball Women | p. 173 |
| What Baseball Discrimination is Like | p. 186 |
| Women Fans Follow Their Passion | p. 200 |
| Baseball women of the Future | p. 216 |
| Conclusion | p. 228 |
| Bibliography | p. 231 |
| Index | p. 249 |
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