Women's Impact on Baseball

Betsy Jochum (b. 1921) was one of the original sixty members of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, founded in 1943. Jochum played the entirety of her six year career (1943-1948) with…

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…

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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Baseball, signed by members of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Autographs include Katie Horstman; Dolly Konwinski; Viola Thompson; Isobel Alvarez; Jane Moffett; Ann Meyer; Sophie…

Baseball signed by the 1951 South Bend Blue Sox of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League. That year the Blue Sox won the first of their two consecutive championships. Signatures include…

A. G. B. L. All Star Game in Fort Wayne, Indiana, at Memorial Park Stadium, Home of the Daisies. Fort Wayne won the game 4 runs to 3. Date 07/14/1953.

Fort Wayne Daisies Baseball Team. Fort Wayne won the 1953 A.G.B.L. pennant, but lost to Kalamazoo in playoffs. Fort Wayne beat the All-Stars making them the first team ever to beat the best of the lea…

Fort Wayne Daisies Baseball at Memorial Park Stadium. Rita Briggs (Catcher) Ayers, MA., LaVonne "Pepper" Paire (Catcher) Los Angeles, CA., Wilma Briggs (Right Field) Naragansett, RI., Shirley Weierman…

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…

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…

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…

Mendon women's baseball team, ca. 1900. Jennie Richards is pictured at far left and L.K. Wood is second from the right. Scanned by Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library using Epson Expression 1…

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Savannah, ca. 1910. Members, both male and female, of a baseball team. Photograph taken at corner of Broughton and Habersham Streets.

Title supplied by cataloger. Image is a reproduction. Group portrait of the Aztecas, a girl's baseball team based in Pacoima, with their manager. Della Fonseca (later Ortega) is standing, second from…

Japanese Girls' Baseball Team Still Plays--Members of the Chicka-Dee soft ball team from Los Angeles, chooses sides for a practice game at Manzanar, War relocation authority center, where, since evacu…

Title supplied by cataloger. Image is a reproduction. Published on page 86 of Shades of L.A. New York : The New Press, c1996. Members of an all girls Rotary Club baseball team in Las Palmas Park in Sa…

Syd Pollock, owner and general manager of the nationally famous Indianapolis. Clowns, has signed the first female baseball star to play in the Negro American League. She will hold down a regular berth…

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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…

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

A woman wearing a baseball glove on her right hand has just thrown a ball; at right is another woman, with a bat in her hand in position to swing.

Three women playing baseball; one jumps in the air with a shout on a base, while the other woman, with a serious look on her face, reaches out her hands to touch her.

Irene Wright in Maryville College baseball uniform with Thaw Hall in the background.

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

Senior girls' baseball team Back row(L to R) Lena Jensen, Wini fred Weage, Marcia Alghren, Grace Mitchell, Queenie Smale, Hellen Klaus, Front Row:Sybil McNeil, Louise Moglia, Eleanor Zimmerman, Clara…

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

Ginling College, Baseball." A woman stands at home plate, bat in hand, another woman is ready to pitch and two women are in the field. A large crowd is assembled in the background.

Back of photograph is inscribed as "Baseball Nine; Students' Three-9 Faculty." Students and faculty are pictured, some kneeling and some standing, in baseball uniforms and with bats and gloves.

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

Women playing baseball at the University of Wisconsin--Madison.

Base Ball team 1932, Center--Mrs. H. Price, Coach, to her right Fay Hibbard, to FH's right, Betty Hausen, Several girls from Honolulu" Students and faculty baseball players surround their coach.

Envelope description: University of Georgia [UGA]; Students; Class Activties; Agriculture School Scenes; [Military Building(e)] Local identification number: LBCB112-089a Lane Brothers Commercial Photo…

Envelope description: University of Georgia [UGA]; Students; Class Activties; Agriculture School Scenes; [Military Building(e)] Local identification number: LBCB112-089g Lane Brothers Commercial Photo…

Women playing baseball at the University of Wisconsin--Madison.

Bibliography: p. 139-140.

Margaret Donahue, 1892 - 1978. First Woman Corporate Officer in Major League Baseball. Chicago Cubs Poster, 1929. Huntley native Margaret Donahue was reluctant to take a job with the Chicago Cubs. It…

Margaret Donahue, 1892 - 1978. A Chicago Cubs Legend and First Woman Corporate Officer in Major League Baseball. Huntley native Margaret Donahue was reluctant to take a job with the Chicago Cubs. It w…

A brief profile of the owner of the St. Louis Cardinals team. Publication unknown.

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…

(l to r:) Boston Bees players Ralph Hodgin (sitting on wall between women), Buddy Hassett, Max West, and unknown surrounded by a group of women along the third base railing at Braves Field. Original d…

Series: A Conversation With Time: 28:30 PGM: Mrs. Dizzy Dean An interview with Patricia Dean, wife of professional baseball player Dizzy Dean.

"Hair seems to be the problem as Mrs. Greg Luzinski searches for first base ... Already perched on the bag is Mrs. Ed Kranepool [later Carole Henson]." Mrs. Doc Edwards can be seen on the far left. Wi…