Table of Contents Acknowledgments vii Preface 1 PART I: THE EXCLUSION OF WOMEN FROM PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL 1. Patriarchal Myths 5 2. "Contraband Pleasure": Victorian Era Baseball, 1866-1890 18 3. "Playing to the Surprise and Delight of the Crowd": Bloomer Girls and Barnstorming Exhibition Players, 1890-1935 27 4. "More Than the Usual Variety of Curves": The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, 1943-1954 44 5. "A Woman Has Her Dreams Too": Three Women Players in the Professional Negro American League, 1952-1954 76 6. "Do Something Momentous": The Florida Sun Sox (1984) and the Colorado Silver Bullets (1994-1997) 93 7. "But Ila's for Real": Ila Borders, 1985-2000 119 PART II: THE EXCLUSION OF GIRLS AND WOMEN FROM AMATEUR BASEBALL 8.

He-Sport and She-Sport: The Origins and Infrastructure of Gender Exclusion in Amateur Baseball 129 9. "It's Baseball Lib": Little League Baseball and Public Americana, 1939-1974 137 Conclusion: "Islands of Privateness" or Islands of Privilege 165 Chapter Notes 187 Bibliography 201 Index 211.