Ardell, Jean Hastings

Jean Hastings Ardell frequently writes and lectures on women's contributions to baseball. Her work has appeared in the "Los Angeles Times, "the "Sporting News, Elysian Fields Quarterly, Nine: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, "and in the anthologies "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend: Women Writers on Baseball "and "Growing Up with Baseball: How We Loved and Played the Game. "In 1999, she earned the Society for American Baseball Research/"USA" "Today Baseball Weekly "Award for Research for her article, "Lefthander Ila Borders: Crossing Baseball's Gender Line from Little League to the