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Jun 27, 2017 · After Amelia Bloomer designed her famous Turkish-style pants, women donned the new clothes, took to the ball park as “Bloomer Girls,” and traveled the country competing against both male and female teams.
The Bloomer Girls. Amelia Bloomer designed and wore the loose-fitting, Turkish-style trousers that carried her name, and made sports more practical for women athletes. In the 1890s, scores of "Bloomer Girls" baseball teams were formed all over the country. (Eventually, many of them would abandon bloomers in favor of standard baseball uniforms.)
May 13, 2021 · Bloomer Girls: The Play. As my blog shows, I've had a tv pilot for Bloomer Girls finished awhile ago, but I just recently finished the play at the end of April as part of the Dramatists Guild's End of Play Challenge. As part of this, I was able to have a table read hosted by The 24 Hour Plays and terrific actors read the play.
May 26, 2018 · Bloomer Girls traveled across the country, across states, and town-to-town by rail, bringing with them their own fences, tents, and grandstands. And their schedules were grueling: In 1903, the Boston Bloomer Girls played, and won, 28 games in 26 days.
Mar 1, 2018 · Debra A. Shattuck has spent three decades studying the participation of girls and women in baseball, producing the most thorough study of women's participation in the sport during the nineteenth century.
Jan 15, 2017 · Bloomer Girls: Women Baseball Pioneers. Debra A. Shattuck. Published: 15 January 2017. Cite. Share. Abstract. This book is the first to document the transformation of America’s national pastime from a gender-neutral sport into a highly-gendered “man’s game.”
This undated photograph shows the members of the Boston Bloomer Girls baseball team, one of many female teams that criss-crossed the nation from the 1890s into the 1930s playing baseball against men's teams.
