Books in the Library Catalogue:

Search Terms: baseball, softball

The Worth book of softball: a celebration of America's true national pasttime
Paul DIckson
796.357 DIC

A multicultural portrait of professional sports
David P. Press
306.4 PRE

Baseball and billions: a probing look inside the big business of our national pastime
Andrew Zimbalist
338.4 ZIM

Women in baseball: the forgotten history
Gai Ingham Berlage
796.357 BER

Girls of Summer: in their own league
Lois Browne
796.357 BRO

Baseball and the color line
Tom Gilbert
796.357 GIL

Women at play: the story of women in baseball
Barbara Gregorich
796.357 GRE

The Negro Leagues, 1869-1960
Leslie A. Heaphy
796.357 HEA

"I will never forget": interviews with 39 former Negro League players
Brent Kelley
796.357
KEL

A whole new ball game: the story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Sue Macy
796.357 MAC

Baseball: an encyclopedia of popular culture
Edward J. Reilly
796.357 RIE

Database Searches

Search terms: "women in baseball" "girls and baseball" "men in softball" "adult softball leagues" "baseball" "softball" "softball leagues" "adult softball" (all searched separately)

Database: Proquest Online


Criteria: Full-Text
*This brought up a number of useful articles but not all resources are peer-reviewed.







Observations in the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum: Doing Gender in Cooperstown

Classy Athletes

How Baseball Express Plays Ball


Database: JSTOR


The Softball Solution: Female Workers, Male Managers and the Operation of Paternalism at Westclox, 1923-60

Constructions of Gender in Sport

College Softball Is a White Woman's Sport

Adult Health Education and Recreational Programs: National, State, and Local

Baseball, Conduct, and True Womanhood


Gale Databases:

Academic OneFile



Search 2:
Keywords: girls and baseball
Database: Proquest (Syracuse University subscription)
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