Women in baseball: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
m Reverted edits by 41.133.59.140 (talk) to last revision by Kookyunii (HG) |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{HistBaseball nav}} |
{{HistBaseball nav}} |
||
Women have a long history in American baseball. The first professional team in the United States was a women's team {{Citation needed|date=September 2009}}, and many women's teams have existed over the years. |
Women have a long history in American baseball. The first professional team in the United States was a women's team {{Citation needed|date=September 2009}}, and many women's teams have existed over the years. |
||
==Amateur play== |
==Amateur play== |
||
Revision as of 16:15, 6 June 2010
| Part of a series on the |
| History of baseball |
|---|
| Baseball portal |
Women have a long history in American baseball. The first professional team in the United States was a women's team [citation needed], and many women's teams have existed over the years.
Amateur play
Baseball was played at women's colleges in New York and New England as early as the mid-nineteenth century;[1] teams were formed at Vassar College, Smith College, Wellesley College, and Mount Holyoke College.[2] An African American women's team, the Philadelphia Dolly Vardens, was formed in 1867, two years before the formation of the Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team.[3]
Professional play
20th- and 21st-centuries
A number of barnstorming teams existed, including Madame J. H. Caldwell's Chicago Bloomer Girls.[4]
Women also played alongside men, if sometimes briefly. In the 1930s, 17-year-old Jackie Mitchell of the Chattanooga Lookouts struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game. Commissioner of Baseball Landis voided her contract as a result.[5] Commissioner Ford Frick voided the contract of another woman signed to the Harrisburg Senators in the 1950s.[6]
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
See: All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
1954-present
- The Colorado Silver Bullets (1994-1997)[7]
Notes
References
- Cahn, Susan K (1995). Coming on strong: gender and sexuality in twentieth-century women's sport. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674144341.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - Gems, Gerald (2008). Sports in American History: From Colonization to Globalization. Human Kinetics. ISBN 0736056211.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - Ring, Jennifer (2009). Stolen Bases. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-03282-0.
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help)