“Baseball and Bloomers,” a Thanhouser Company silent short film, cleverly challenges gender norms. Miss Street’s Seminary girls challenge Adair College’s male athletes to baseball, initially met with amusement. With the arrival of disguised Harvard baseball stars Jack and Jim, the girls get an unexpected edge.

Jack pitches, Jim catches – the girls start winning, surprising all. The film not only entertains but also comments on underestimated women’s abilities, breaking stereotypes. This lighthearted film celebrates teamwork, determination, and defying expectations.

Baseball and Bloomers | January 6, 1911 (United States)
Stars: William Garwood, Marguerite SnowSummary: Miss Street's Seminary for young girls has a very ambitious class of pupils. The young athletes, not content with basketball and tennis, aspire to shine in the great American game, and organize a baseball club. They are so satisfied with themselves that they finally send a challenge to Adair College, which has a crowd of husky young athletes and a club that thinks it amounts to something. When the challenge is received, the boys are first angry, then amused. They decide to accept it, to have fun with the girls. The young women, after some practice, realize that their team, while it may be pretty to look at, is of little real use on the diamond. And the prospect makes them weep. Fortunately for the girls, Jack, the brother of their president, arrives from Harvard. His chum, Jim, is with him. These two young men are baseball stars themselves, and when they are told of the predicament of the girls, they good-naturedly offer to help them out. The University men disguise themselves as girls, act as battery for the young women, and the college boys, who had looked for a laughable victory, are mowed down, inning after inning, because of the work of pitcher Jack and catcher Jim. The other members of the "Girl Team" have nothing to do except to look pretty. When the boy athletes have retired from the field vanquished, the girls reward their battery with one kiss, only one, from each of the other seven players.
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