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Alexandra Allred

When Women Stood

2023

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Eight A League of Their Own S. 77-94

„… field first baseman” by Major League Baseball. In the movie, Kamenshek’s character, Dottie, retires …” „… media, “I don’t know what’s going to happen if they begin to let women in baseball. Of course, they will …” „… spent sleeping on buses, but for women of the 1940s, the opportunity to play ball, travel, and be paid …”

Six The Importance of Race, Sports, and the Polite Society S. 53-62

„… baseball but also participated in bullfighting and, in 1930, became Mexico’s first boxer. During her …” „… cultures, the push for athletics has remained much lower. By the 1940s, post–World War II, as more male …” „… 53SixThe Importance of Race, Sports, and the Polite SocietyIn the 1920s, as a few liberties (not …”

Twenty Game Changers S. 249-266

„… female to play on an NCAA men’s baseball team and, though she would later quit due to persistent sexual …” „… one of the original game changers in women’s modern history. A pilot, skydiver, anthropologist, and …” „… perfect the craft of falconry with eagles and embodied the history of an-cient female hunters.As McGough’s …”

Fifteen The Closing of the Twentieth Century S. 179-194

„… first woman of the House of Representatives, Jeannette Rankin (1880–1973), was elected. During the 1940s …” „… demand for feminin-ity of women in sport was incessant. In the early 1900s, with the threat of women …” „… girl arrived in the 1920s, such fears were confirmed. However, the style, while considered too …”

Notes S. 287-328

„… , https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2013 /02/20/50-mind-blowing-sports-movie-factoids.12. Nicole Haase, “Women’s Baseball Trailblazers …” „… /2018/5/30/17407798/women-baseball-trailblazers-reflect-aagpbl-75th -anniversary.13. Jack Doyle, “‘1930s Super Girl …” „… .php/component/content/. 4. Edith Hall, “Citizens but Second Class: Women in Aristotle’s Politics (384–322 B.C.E.),” in …”

Twelve Exploitation of the Female Image S. 137-150

„… ap-peared in the 1940s. Only Wonder Woman stood independently while the 144 Chapter Twelveother women were …” „… ” stood against patriarchal values and changed social norms.In the 2000s, however, an influx of social …” „… women’s bodies, society and the media have always fo-cused on particular body parts of the female form …”

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Arif Khatib, Pete Elman

Remember Their Sacrifice

2023

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15 The Latin Legend Who Broke the Seal Emilio Navarro S. 121-126

„… what happened that day. “I mean, 103, that’s ridiculous,” said baseball star Alex Rodriguez, whose …” „… still one of the finest infielders in the league into the early 1940s, when a knee injury forced him to …” „… 121In June 2008, Major League Baseball conducted a ceremonial draft to honor living ex- players …”

1 A Trailblazer Has No Regrets Pumpsie Green S. 1-10

„… appear in a Red Sox uniform. The vener-able organization has emerged from baseball’s dark ages and is …” „… court. He found his passion early on, one that would take him all over the country: sports. In the 1940s …” „… told them if I couldn’t play baseball, then I didn’t want to go to school.”In the early 1950s, the …”

9 Running Down the Base Paths of Life Mamie “Peanut” Johnson S. 71-76

„… Girls Professional Baseball League, founded in the 1940s by Philip Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs …” „… Major League Baseball had been integrated for five years, the women’s league was all white. “The coaches …” „… football, and we didn’t have tennis. All we knew was baseball.”Her uncle Leo saw that his niece had an …”

17 From the Football Field to the Battlefield Eugene Evans and Eli Page Howard S. 135-142

„… also an extraordinary athlete dur-ing the late 1940s. He had a long and distinguished military career …” „… national sports scene in the 1940s and 1950s goes directly back to Edward P. Hurt,” wrote Herman L. Wade …” „… young married army officer, died in combat in the Korean War just three years later.Evans’s teammate at …”

5 Baseball’s Triple Trailblazer Toni Stone S. 37-44

„… was baseball’s “triple trailblazer” because she was a woman, she was African American, and she was …” „… Baseball’s Triple TrailblazerToni Stone38 Remember Their SacrificeNot only did Toni Stone have to overcome …” „… state, close to Toni Stone. Baseball’s triple trailblazer, on deck to eternity.Courtesy of the Negro …”

19 Additional Unsung Heroes S. 151-169

„… 1940s, there was a gifted athlete so talented that he could have played both professional baseball and …” „… League Baseball.In 1940, he joined the Chicago Defender, a Black newspaper founded in 1905, advocating …” „… baseball was “the white man’s game.”Ironically, seventy- five years after the color line was broken, the …”

Index S. 179-186

„… , 166, 169All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, 71, 73, 75Allen, Dick, 99Amateur Athletic …” „… , 152Baltimore Colts, 54Barksdale, Don, 10, 151–62baseball, 1–10, 37–44, 71–76, 97–102, 121–26, 154–55 …” „… Hall of Fame: Baseball, 43, 71, 100, 168; Cal Athletic, 87; Georgia Sports, 18; International …”

10 The Joy of Flying Archie Williams S. 77-88

„… . Many of the families who arrived in the 1930s were transplants from the Dust Bowl states. Between 1940 …” „… living giving private lessons to student pilots and eventually got his pilot’s license.In 1940, Williams …” „… athlete Jesse Owens winning four gold medals and Adolf Hitler refusing to shake Owens’s hand. The …”

2 The Gold at the End of the Race Alice Coachman S. 11-20

„… different halls of fame.This is the story of one woman’s rise from poverty to the greatest athletic stage in …” „… carried a lemon around with me to every track and field event for eleven years. That’s all it took—that …” „… and God’s will.“The other runners would eat chocolate bars to give them strength and energy, she said …”

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STADION Volume 40 (2014) Issue 1 ISSN Online: 2942-3430

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Victoria Felkar The Iron Bar: The Modern History of Prison Physical Culture and the Ban on Correctional Weightlifting S. 19-38

„… Sports such as track and field, basketball, football and baseball, were also integrated into Elmira’s …” „… ”1, muscles and strength building exercises have become associated with the prisoner’s body in …” „… . Popular culture tends to show images of prisoner’s bodybuilding with heavy barbells and dumbbells though …”

Orr Levental, Yair Galily, Ilan Tamir Naming a "National Stadium": The Case of Israel S. 131-150

„… 1988 European Football Championship semifinals: “[…] In 1940 they came, in 1988 we came …” „… 's municipal protocols and of press articles that appeared in the 1950s suggests that while the park is …” „… in a few instances, Ramat Gan's City Stadium. Moreover, in the 1960s, a decade into the existence of …”

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Thomas J. Whalen

Spirit of '67

2017

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Ch03. From Dynasty to Country Club S. 45-70

„… carried the pinstripers to several pennants. As the estimable Reach’s Baseball Guide reported in 1923 …” „… talents who would propel the team to pennant contention in the late 1940s.Williams gave a tantalizing …” „… possibly unraveling his twisted mental processes,” he once wrote of “baseball’s terrible-tempered Mr. Bang …”

Ch05. El Birdos Soar S. 103-150

„… late 1940s. “It was my [older] brother [Rudy] who forced me to play baseball and I mean forced me,” he …” „… not entirely baseball-related, however. “It’s no secret . . . that Satchel Paige was a gen-uine ladies …” „… , coughing attacks, and high fever. Before the discovery of the antibiotic drug Strep-tomycin in the 1940s …”

Ch02. Dizzy, El Cheapo, and Stan the Man S. 19-44

„… . Thomas. Although her time as owner was brief, Britton was the first woman to crack baseball’s glass …” „… received a bachelor of arts degree and starred on the football and base-ball squads. The school’s athletic …” „… you for a better hitter than you are,” Durocher cheekily told Cobb, the holder of baseball’s highest …”

Ch09. Twilight Years S. 251-272

„… returned to baseball and Boston as a popular color man for Red Sox TV broadcasts in the late 1970s …” „… Oakland A’s, major league baseball’s version of The Bad News Bears. Consisting of young emerging stars …” „… championships in 1972–1973. “We happened to become what may be baseball’s last true dynasty,” Williams later …”

Ch06. Coming Through S. 151-182

„… ,” he said of his comfortable middle-class upbring-ing in St. Louis in the 1940s. “This placed me in a …” „… play baseball. You don’t know how much you miss something until it’s taken away from you.”With …” „… proceeded to line up and eagerly bid on his services, making him baseball’s first bona fide free agent of …”

Ch08. Lonborg and Champagne S. 215-250

„… . He faired a little better on the playing field, making the school’s varsity baseball squad as a …” „… in baseball, the other was still attainable.” Shipped to Chicago’s Class C minor league franchise in …” „… , Nebraska, in the late 1930s and 1940s. “They tell me my father died three months before I was born,” he …”

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The Voices of Baseball

2023

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21 Marty Brennaman at Great American Ball Park S. 195-200

„… baseball’s first professional ball club, mauling the Mansfield independents 48–14. it’s arguable June 2, 1869 …” „… in the 1940 World Series. if the 1940 title left any doubt of the club’s worthiness to bear the name …” „… induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. A little over 13 months after Rose’s lifetime ban was issued, the …”

22 Tom McCarthy and Jim Jackson at Citizens Bank Park S. 201-208

„… , when baseball’s Philadelphia Phillies, led by all-time hit king Pete Rose and slugger Mike Schmidt …” „… introduced their fans to Citizens Bank Park, a new-look baseball facility with a flair for baseball’s past in …” „… , one featured member of this Wall of Fame belongs not only to Baseball’s Hall of Fame but to one for …”

Bibliography S. 319-336

„… www.boston.redsox.mlb.com/bos/ballpark/information/index.jsp?content=factswww.boston.redsox.mlb.com/bos/ballpark/information/index.jsp?content=historyhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/2018.shtmlhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/BoS/2018 …” „… CoLiSeUMwww.baseballpilgrimages.com/american/oakland.htmlwww.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/oakland_Coliseumwww.oakland.athletics.mlb.com/oak/history/ballparks.jspwww.espn.go.com/classic/biography/s/Finley_Charles.htmlwww.baseball …” „… www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BoS/BoS200410170.shtmlwww.baseball-reference.com/postseason/2004 …”

1 Joe Castiglione and Ken “Hawk” Harrelson at Fenway Park S. 5-14

„… . in 1940, after the arrival of arguably baseball’s greatest hitter ever, Ted Williams, the year before …” „… . Buckner’s gaffe, which is arguably the most famous in baseball history, plagued the Red Sox for another 18 …” „… guys play all over. There’s 30 ballparks in baseball. They adapt very quickly.” one distinct feature of …”

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