Barbara Gregorich
Research Notes for Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball: Lizzie Arlington, Alta Weiss, Lizzie Murphy, Edith Houghton, Jackie Mitchell, Babe Didrikson
eBook
Research Notes for Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball, Volume 2, is a chronological collection of public domain newspaper articles and public documents — research information on which Women at Play was based.Research Notes, Volume 1 documented women ballplayers of the late 19th Century, most of them Bloomer Girls. Volume II documents six women who played on otherwise all-male teams from roughly 1890 through 1935: Lizzie Arlington, who signed a minor-league contract in 1898Alta Weiss, who pitched against men’s teams throughout OhioLizzie Murphy, who played semipro ball for over twenty yearsEdith Houghton, who was playing semipro ball at the age of tenJackie Mitchell, who struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in 1931Babe Didrikson, who pitched spring training against major league teamsVolume 2 offers the most important of the newspaper and magazine articles about these six players, some articles in their entirety and some in summary. Included at the end of the volume is “The Only Lizzie,” an article about Lizzie Arlington.This book will be of interest to baseball researchers in general, to women in baseball who want to know their history, to people who enjoy reading old newspaper articles, to high school English teachers who assign research topics and papers to students, and to all teachers interested in introducing students to primary source materials. In this volume you will find untold stories about women in sports; primary source materials; research paper materials; and the daily or twice-daily games played by barnstorming women.
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