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Disapproving scolds. Sexist condescension. Odd theories about the effect of exercise on reproductive organs. Though baseball began as a gender-neutral sport, girls and women of the nineteenth century faced many obstacles on their way to the diamond. Yet all-female nines took the field everywhere. Debra A. Shattuck pulls from newspaper accounts and hard-to-find club archives to reconstruct a forgotten era in baseball history. Her fascinating social history tracks women players who organized baseball clubs for their own enjoyment and found roster spots on men's teams. Entrepreneurs,...

2015 marks the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, a document iconic of the age-old fight for liberty against organized tyranny. But what has really changed since the thirteenth century? And how should Western society come to terms with the unprecedented challenges posed by central banking, mass surveillance, gay marriage, the substitution of education for job-training, and the abuse of federal power in relation to the states? In a unique and diverse compilation of essays, Proclaim Liberty offers thoughtful insight to these matters (and more) from a distinctly Christian perspective....