Blues, Bloomers, and Bobbies

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Blues, Bloomers, and Bobbies Named after their uniforms, but having no home field on which to play, the Reds and the Blues traveled between Philadelphia and New York City, playing baseball before curious crowds who had turned out to witness the droll spectacle of women at the national pastime. The year was 1883 and the two teams represented the tail end of a popular but short-lived trend in spectator sport: unskilled women...
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