The Role Of Baseball In The Yellow Wallpaper By Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Continuing on women's rights, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a strong feminist and author of The Yellow Wallpaper wrote on women’s focus in their roles in the consumer world as minor pieces. She points out a key topic about how women are told to take and take and take but to not give but one thing, their womanhood, meaning that a woman is to consume the position to feed the family and basically care for the family but at the same time be under their husbands control. So to basically take every gift from a man but give up their womanhood. Charlotte also points out that men overestimate a woman's so-called “duties of her position.” These “duties of her position” had been to produce an elaborate devotion to individuals and their personal needs, meaning
To be more specific Gunther Barth, author of Baseball and the Values of Industrial America, shares a story of baseball through the eyes of humorist Ring Larden’s Jack Keefe aka “The Busher,” appearing on the Saturday Evening Post. As described in the description of the paper, Ring Larden’s Jack Keefe “presents himself and his fellow players as a ‘childish and stupid and not a little mean-spirited’-but still lovable- collection of ordinary human beings.” He tells us that sports, when regulated, become socially acceptable outlet for emotions. Making the sport regular fostered interest, shaped to the spectator, and provided framework for events leading to a championship. Baseball conquered the United States in the decades between 1840-1870. Before the Civil War there were no accepted rules regulating strikes and balls. This would be another example of commercial leisure and consumer
Commercialism and professionalism went hand in hand. Baseball turned young men’s heads to the idea of a path of fortune and fame. From its start in 1876, the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, meant business. The owners established themselves as masters of the game. William A. Hulbert, the first league president, engineered the developments. After a while, body shields were available so umpires could stand behind the catcher to call strikes and balls. Up until the 1880’s there was no use of gloves until players liked the idea started by a shortstop. All of which increased its drama. Bringing us back to consumer