Bloomer GirlsDisapproving scolds. Sexist condescension. Odd theories about the effect of exercise on reproductive organs. Though baseball began as a gender neutral sport, girls and women of the nineteenth century faced many obstacles on their way to the diamond. Yet all female nines took the field everywhere. Debra A. Shattuck pulls from newspaper accounts and hard to find club archives to reconstruct a forgotten era in baseball history. Her fascinating social