Gregorich Press Kit, Research Notes, Volume 2 1 Press Kit Barbara Gregorich Research Notes for Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball Volume 2 Contents Pages Baseball Author Publishes Research Notes!!!!! 1 Interview with Author!!!!!! 3 Color Photo, Barbara Gregorich!!!!!! 5 Full-Color Cover of Research Notes, Vol. 2!!!!! 6!!!
Gregorich Press Kit, Research Notes,Volume 2 1 Baseball Author Publishes Research Notes Barbara Gregorich, author of Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball,which won the SABR-Macmillan Award for best baseball research when it was published in 1993, and which was recently included in Ron Kaplan s 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read Before They Die, has now published Volume 2 of the research notes on which her popular book was based. After the publication of Gregorich s groundbreaking work, many other books on women in baseball contributed to the growing body of literature on the subject. For Gregorich, the work that went into researching women who played baseball (from 1875 onward) was intense, and the accumulated articles filled several file boxes. Volume 1 of Research Notes for Women at Play, published in 2010, covered the early years of women in baseball, from 1875 through 1920, and included the most important of the early ballplayers and teams: Maud Nelson and the Western Bloomer Girls, and Margaret Nabel and the New York Bloomer Girls. Volume 2 documents six women who played on otherwise all-male teams from roughly 1890 through 1935: Lizzie Arlington, who signed a minor-league contract in 1898 Alta Weiss, who pitched against men s teams throughout Ohio Lizzie Murphy, who played semipro ball for over twenty years Edith Houghton, who was playing semipro ball at the age of ten Jackie Mitchell, who struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in 1931 Babe Didrikson, who pitched spring training against major league teams Volume 2 offers the most important of the newspaper and magazine articles about these six players, some articles in their entirety and some in summary. Research Notes Volume 2 ends with the inclusion of The Only Lizzie, an article about Lizzie Arlington. Gregorich believes the 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. Research Notes for Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball, Volume 2, is available from Amazon.com and other online stores. The softcover is $12, the ebook $4.99.
Gregorich Press Kit, Research Notes, Volume 2 2 ABOUT THE AUTHOR! An Ohio native and graduate of Kent State University and the University of Wisconsin, Barbara Gregorich took postgraduate courses in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University. She also worked as a typesetter for the Boston Globe. and the Chicago Tribune. Her award-winning nonfiction title, Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball (Harcourt, 1993) was taught in both baseball literature courses and women s studies courses and is still used as reference book.! A member of the Author s Guild, the Society of Children s Book Writers and Illustrators, the Mystery Writers of America, and the Society for American Baseball Research, Gregorich lives in Chicago. Her website is www.barbaragregorich.com and her Facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/pages/barbara-gregorich/277960097025?ref=ts RESEARCH NOTES FOR WOMEN AT PLAY: THE STORY OF WOMEN IN BASEBALL, VOLUME 2: LIZZIE ARLINGTON, ALTA WEISS, LIZZIE MURPHY, EDITH HOUGHTON, JACKIE MITCHELL, BABE DIDRIKSON by Barbara Gregorich CreateSpace nonfiction, 140 pages Price: $12 softcover; $4.99 ebook ISBN: 978-1491023594 ISBN-10: 1491023597 BISAC: Sports & Recreation / Baseball / History
Gregorich Press Kit, Research Notes, Volume 2 3 Interview with Barbara Gregorich, re Research Notes for Women at Play: Volume 2 Q: What made you reprint notes that have been sitting in your files for nearly twenty years? A: The main reason I decided to reprint part of my research notes is that I think they might help other baseball researchers, who can use this information to dig deeper into the history of women in baseball. Another reason I decided to reprint some of these notes is that as I was researching the topic back in 1988 through 1993, the information never came to me in any orderly way. I would receive a snippet of an article from Portland, Oregon, and another snippet from Portland, Maine, for example. Information from the 1940s arrived at the same time as information from the 1870s. And while I kept the information in files and pocket folders, I never had the time to further organize the over 8,000 pieces of paper. So by putting this information in order, I m presenting it to others in a more comprehensible way neat and in chronological order. Q: Do you think there s still information to be found on women who played baseball nearly a hundred years ago? A: Definitely. In the twenty years since the publication of Women at Play I have run across information I wish I d had back when I was writing the book. For example, after the publication of Women at Play I wrote an article on the time that Margaret Nabel of the New York Bloomer Girls challenged Jackie
Gregorich Press Kit, Research Notes, Volume 2 4 Mitchell and the Junior Lookouts of Chattanooga to a game to see which team was better. (The original newspaper reports on that encounter are summarized in Volume 2.) But what I didn t know until very recently was that Alta Weiss also pitched against girl pitchers. There s far more yet to be discovered than has been discovered thus far. Q: Do you think you might want to do some of this discovering yourself? A: Most likely not but perhaps I ll feel otherwise when I ve completed publishing these notes. Q: How many volumes will there be? A: I plan on a total of three volumes of Research Notes. I anticipate that Volume 3 will be published in late 2015. I intend to publish up to the All- American Girls Professional Baseball League, but nothing about the League itself or anything past 1940. I feel that information about the League is plentiful, and information about the last fifty years is not that hard to find. Q: What will you do with your accumulated research notes after you finish publishing? A: I ll donate them to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. A small part of my research notes come from clippings others sent to the Hall: I visited the NBHOF and photocopied many such clippings from their files. It seems only right that those notes and all the others I have go to the Hall so that others can use them.
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