Book Review: Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball

Ryan Murtha
Talkin' Bout Praxis
4 min readApr 3, 2020

By Jennifer Ring

Jennifer Ring, now a professor emeritus at University of Nevada, Reno is a political scientist by training, and spent the first decades of her career analyzing traditional political philosophy, race, and identity politics. But in 2009, Ring gave us Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don’t Play Baseball. It was a passion project, quite…