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Research Notes for Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball is a chronological collection of public domain and other newspaper articles - research information on which Barbara Gregorich's book detailing the history of women in hardball, 1892-1993, was based. That book, Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball, won the SABR-MacMillan Baseball Research Award. It's 30th anniversary edition is available as a Kindle ebook. The reprints and notes of Research Notes for Women at Play, Volume 1 are arranged chronologically and by three topics: Bloomer Baseball Before Maud Nelson; Midwest Bloomer Baseball, Mostly Maud Nelson; Eastern Bloomers, Mostly Margaret Nabel.Within these broad categories are articles on the Blondes and Brunettes; the Western Bloomer Girls; the Cherokee Indian Base Ball team; the New York Bloomer Girls; the Baltimore Black Sox; the Philadelphia Bobbies, and others.In addition, the book includes the article "My Darling Clementine," detailing Gregorich's steps in discovering the importance and identity of Maud Nelson.The source materials within this book illuminate the daily lives of women who simply wanted to play baseball and, to do so, signed up with barnstorming women's teams. The materials serve not only as fascinating snippets of the past, but also as primary sources for English teachers and historians.