A Woman's Work: Writing Baseball History With Harold Seymour | 
| Author: Dorothy Jane Mills
Creator: Steve Gietschier
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Category: Book
Buy New: $35.00
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1609223
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Edition: illustrated edition
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0786418486
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.357092
EAN: 9780786418480
ASIN: 0786418486
Publication Date: March 2004
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Product Description
From 1949 until 1990, Dorothy Jane Mills quietly contributed her research and writing to the first baseball histories ever written by a historian. The wife of historian Harold Seymour, she found herself increasingly involved with his books, as the couple presided over mountains of records on the game and worked to prepare his imposing manuscripts for press. But she received no official credit. It was after Dr. Seymour s passing that other researchers learned she was the unattributed co-author of much of his work. This important memoir reveals details of the author s partnership with baseball s most revered historian. Many new facts regarding Mills role come to light. Mills, now recognized as the game s first woman historian, also explains how her work as a teacher, editor, novelist, children s author, and public speaker fit into her baseball work. The book contains numerous photographs from the author s personal collection, most of them in print for the first time as well as a foreword by Steve Gietschier of The Sporting News.
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A Woman's Work is Never Done August 2, 2006
Monica Nucciarone (Olympia, WA USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Dorothy Jane Mills proves that "a woman's work is never done," having spent the majority of her life devoted to research and writing, and still continues to do so in her life today well into her 70s. However, it's not just any kind of research or writing that she's conducted, but an immersion into baseball history typically thought to be solely a man's area of interest, knowledge, and expertise. Dorothy gives a detailed account of her intense collaboration with her late husband Harold Seymour and the three books on baseball history published with him as the sole author. Dorothy outlines the development of her role as collaborator, which increased at the same time that her late husband's role decreased in the research and writing for all three books. A truly inspiring story to read that shatters stereotypes and provides a rolemodel for researchers and writers.....and not just of one gender.
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