Women have played and contributed to the sport of baseball for more than a century in the United States. Over the past fifteen years numerous books (Lois Browne, Girls of Summer; Sue Macy, A Whole New Ball Game; Barbara Gregorich, Women at Play; Gai Ingham Berlage, Women in Baseball: The Forgotten History; Marlene Targ Brill, Winning Women in Baseball & Softball; Michelle Y. Green, A Strong Right Arm; John M. Kovach, Women’s Baseball; Jean Hastings Ardell, Breaking into Baseball; Merrie A. Fidler, The Origins and History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League; Leslie Heaphy and Mel Anthony May, Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball, many articles published in scholarly journals.
