Baseball Stereotypes

In the baseball stories and poems, you do not get to read about a strong woman who is the main character very often. Women in stories portray as the wife of the main characters that are male. Their role can range from being a handy homemaker to the main character’s motivation to win a game or so. There is no representation for women in baseball literature in the early 1900s. The late 1800s to early 1900s was a time when women were placed into roles that are difficult to break out of. Even modern day, some stereotypes on women are still represented. Amount of women in the baseball literature read is limited because of gender roles placed on women at the time. In the story “Horseshoes” by Ring Lardner, the girlfriend of Grimes’s was mentioned …show more content…
Women were subjected to been seen as objects and stereotyped to be loving homemakers to their husbands. There is a slight improvement in “Baseball Hattie” however the view of a woman as a homemaker is still present. Runyon did involve a background for Hattie claiming she was a baseball fanatic and whatnot. Hattie did not have to be a homemaker and wait for Haystack. Along in the story of “In the Thrills of Grass”, a woman in the story was seen to convert to her husband’s point of view. The stereotype is minimal however, it does illustrate how women’s roles have not changed much until now. It has been so engrained that some of the slight stereotypes for females are not …show more content…
We have to step up as women and take the lead” quoted by American singer Beyoncé. Women would fight to gain economic and social equality since the number of unemployment tripled from 2.6 million. In the early 1900’s, 85% women who were 25 and over were either married or widowed (Project MUSE). Since the stereotype of women was to stay at home and to take care of the children. Tasks for a homemaker also included chores, making food, clothing being ready, and looking after their spouse as well. However, not every woman believed in equal rights as a man since some said that it was “too improper”. This was only thought since men stated that but as the 1900s grew. The stereotypes became slowly broken due to the rise and support for Woman’s Suffrage. A huge example for a breakthrough was the flappers in the 1920s. Flappers cut their traditional long hair to be bobs and wore dresses that exposed their ankles. Another concept was to flatten their chest to break the traditional beauty standards of women and look more