Shattuck's masterful interpretation of newspaper accounts unravels the sometimes subtle differences between editorial commentary and factual reporting. Her extensive use of primary sources, particularly newspaper accounts, reveals that not only were girls and women playing baseball before it was recognizable as the modern game, but then they contributed to its development and then were deliberately edged out of the sport and erased from its history.
The greatest strength of Bloomer Girls is Shattuck's research. Though baseball began as a gender-neutral sport, women of the 19th century faced many.
Shattuck covers these years of baseball thoroughly not only contributing to the body of knowledge about women's participation in the sport but also to the broader history of baseball's development as a game and particularly as the national pastime. However, there has been a noticeable gap in the history of baseball in regards to women's early contributions to and participation in the game. Baseball has had its fair share of historical scholarship. Shattuck's book Bloomer Girls: Women Baseball Pioneers hits a line drive straight into uncovered territory.
xxii, 328, illustrations, bibliography, notes, index. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017.
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