JENNY RING at Books Inc. Berkeley

Professor of political science and former director of women's studies at the University of Nevada, Jennifer Ring discusses her powerful look at gender and sports, A Game of Their Own: Voices of Contemporary Women in Baseball. A revealing look at the history of women's exclusion from America's national pastime, A Game of Their Own provides readers with the fascinating history of baseball, while also searching for ways to rescue the sport from its arrogance and sense of exclusionary entitlement.