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Women's Impact on Baseball
Women's Impact on Baseball

Women's Impact on Baseball

Go beyond the story of how women players saved baseball during World War II, and learn how women of all ages have been playing the game since its early days. Explore the women who managed the business of baseball and the wives who supported and shared in their husbands’ legacies.

  • Racine Belles Year Book, 1946

    Racine Belles

    The All American Girls Softball League was formed in 1943 by Chicago Cubs owner Philip Wrigley. Consisting of four teams--the Kenosha Comets, the Racine Belles, the Rockford Peaches, and the South Ben…

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  • Kenosha Comets Year Book, 1947

    Kenosha Comets

    The All American Girls Softball League was formed in 1943 by Chicago Cubs owner Philip Wrigley. Consisting of four teams--the Kenosha Comets, the Racine Belles, the Rockford Peaches, and the South Ben…

    View Full Item  in Wisconsin Historical Society
  • Oral history interview with Patricia Brown, All-American Girls’ Professional Baseball League player in the early 1950s

    In this interview, Patricia I. Brown, librarian emeritus of Suffolk University Law School, reflects on her forty-year educational and professional career at Suffolk University. Ms. Brown discusses her…

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  • “The All American Girls’ Professional Baseball League : A Lost and Forgotten History”

    Waldhorn, Mara

    Oral history interview with Hall of Famer Ruth Richards by St. Andrew's Episcopal School student Mara Waldhorn. In this interview Richards provides memories and depictions from her experiences in the…

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  • “The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: Pioneers in Their Own Right”

    GrawOzburn, Clement C

    The war years of the 1940’s saw unprecedented numbers of women entering the public realm in numerous traditionally male occupations. The war left scores of businesses, including baseball, without adeq…

    View Full Item  in University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
  • Women’s baseball team, Mendon, Utah, circa 1900

    Mendon women's baseball team, ca. 1900. Jennie Richards is pictured at far left and L.K. Wood is second from the right.

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  • Women’s baseball team, Washington, 1908

    Women; Sports;

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  • Vassar College baseball team, The Resolutes, 1876

    Pach, G. W

    Full-length picture of nine female students wearing baseball caps, long dresses and belts labeled ""Resolutes"". Five are seated, four are standing behind them. A brick building with tall double doors…

    View Full Item  in Vassar College Libraries, Poughkeepsie, N.Y
  • Women playing baseball, University of Washington, 1905

    Typed label on mount: Girls baseball - Upper Campus.Filed in: UW - Athletics, Baseball (#605).

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  • Women playing baseball, University of Chicago, 1916

    Kadlec, Anna

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  • Physical education baseball game, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 1916

    Woman safe at first base in physical education baseball game at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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  • Women playing baseball, Mills College, circa 1920

    Unknown

    Photograph of two women students (Jean Bailard Saxby, class of 1922 and unknown) playing baseball at Mills College.

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  • Women playing baseball, Cornell University, 1924

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  • University of Wisconsin – Madison indoor baseball team seniors, 1928

    Indoor baseball, seniors: Virginia Mead, Evelyn Hamer, Ruth Grafton, Ethel Miehlke, Elizabeth Milne, Emiah Hopkins, Jane Carling, Aurelia Samber.

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  • Women playing baseball, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 1930

    Women playing baseball at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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  • Women playing baseball, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 1950

    University of Wisconsin Photographic Laboratory () et al

    Women playing baseball at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

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  • “Basket Ball and Indoor Baseball for Women” by Helen Frost, 1920

    Frost, Helen

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  • “Baseball for Girls and Women” by Gladys E. Palmer, 1929

    Palmer, Gladys E

    Bibliography: p. 139-140.

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  • Joan Whitney Payson, co-founder and majority owner of New York Mets

    Unmounted print of Joan Whitney Payson. Payson was the daughter of Payne Whitney, who was the major donor for the establishment of the medical center. She married Charles Payson and the family has con…

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  • Boston Bees players with their wives at Braves Field, 1939

    Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967

    Original data provided by Leslie Jones or the Boston Public Library on the negative or negative sleeve: Braves players with their wives at Braves Field, ca. 1940 Corrected title and date based on rese…

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