South Bend Blue Sox baseball uniform, worn by All-American Girls Baseball League inaugural player Besty Jochum, circa 1945
View Full Item in National Museum of American HistoryBetsy 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…
Racine Belles Year Book, 1946
Racine BellesView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThe 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…
Kenosha Comets Year Book, 1947
Kenosha CometsView Full Item in Wisconsin Historical SocietyThe 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…
Kenosha Comets players and manager, 1944
Kenosha Comets (Baseball team)View Full Item in Minnesota Historical Societyphotoprint
Kenosha Comets players in locker room, 1943
Kenosha Comets (Baseball team)View Full Item in Minnesota Historical Societyphotoprint
Kenosha Comets playing baseball, 1943
Kenosha Comets (Baseball team)View Full Item in Minnesota Historical Societyphotoprint
Baseball, signed by players of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
View Full Item in National Museum of American HistoryBaseball, 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
View Full Item in National Museum of American HistoryBaseball 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…
American Girls’ Baseball League All-Star Game, 1953
View Full Image in Allen County Public LibraryA. 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, 1953
View Full Image in Allen County Public LibraryFort 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 on the field at Memorial Park Stadium, Lima, Ohio, 1953
View Full Image in Allen County Public LibraryFort 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…
Oral history interview with Patricia Brown, All-American Girls’ Professional Baseball League player in the early 1950s
View Full Item in Suffolk University, Moakley Archive & InstituteIn 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…
“The All American Girls’ Professional Baseball League : A Lost and Forgotten History”
Waldhorn, MaraView Full Item in St. Andrew's Episcopal SchoolOral 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 Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: Pioneers in Their Own Right”
GrawOzburn, Clement CView Full Item in University of Wisconsin-La CrosseThe 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…
Women’s baseball team, Mendon, Utah, circa 1900
View Full Item in Mendon (UT)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…
Co-ed baseball team, Savannah, Georgia, 1910
View Full Item in Georgia ArchivesSavannah, ca. 1910. Members, both male and female, of a baseball team. Photograph taken at corner of Broughton and Habersham Streets.
Chicka-Dee Japanese women’s baseball team at Manzanar War Relocation Center, California, 1942
View Full Item in University of Southern California. LibrariesJapanese 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…
Memphis World article about Negro league team Indianapolis Clowns signing woman player Toni Stone, 1953
View Full Item in Rhodes College. Crossroads to FreedomSyd 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…
Toni Stone, first woman to play professional baseball, throws ceremonial first pitch in San Francisco, circa 1965
Stone, ToniView Full Item in Minnesota Historical Societyphotoprint
Vassar College baseball team, The Resolutes, 1876
Pach, G. WView Full Item in Vassar College Libraries, Poughkeepsie, N.YFull-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…
Women playing baseball, University of Washington, 1905
View Full Image in University of WashingtonTyped label on mount: Girls baseball - Upper Campus.Filed in: UW - Athletics, Baseball (#605).
Women playing baseball, University of Missouri, 1913
View Full Item in The State Historical Society of MissouriA 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.
Women playing baseball, University of Missouri, 1913
View Full Item in The State Historical Society of MissouriThree 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.
Women playing baseball, University of Chicago, 1916
Kadlec, AnnaView Full Image in Eastern Kentucky UniversityPhysical education baseball game, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 1916
Meuer, WilliamView Full Item in University of Wisconsin Digital CollectionsWoman safe at first base in physical education baseball game at the University of Wisconsin--Madison.
Fresno State Normal School women’s baseball team, 1917
View Full Item in California State University, FresnoSenior 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…
Women playing baseball, Mills College, circa 1920
UnknownView Full Item in Mills CollegePhotograph of two women students (Jean Bailard Saxby, class of 1922 and unknown) playing baseball at Mills College.
Ginling College students playing baseball, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, 1923
UnidentifiedView Full Item in University of Southern California. LibrariesGinling 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.
Faculty and students from the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry playing baseball, 1926
View Full Item in Bryn Mawr CollegeBack 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.
University of Wisconsin – Madison indoor baseball team seniors, 1928
View Full Item in University of Wisconsin Digital CollectionsIndoor baseball, seniors: Virginia Mead, Evelyn Hamer, Ruth Grafton, Ethel Miehlke, Elizabeth Milne, Emiah Hopkins, Jane Carling, Aurelia Samber.
Women playing baseball, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 1930
View Full Item in University of Wisconsin Digital CollectionsWomen playing baseball at the University of Wisconsin--Madison.
Yenching University women’s baseball team, Beijing, China, 1932
UnknownView Full Item in University of Southern California. LibrariesBase 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.
University of Georgia students playing baseball, 1946
Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers (Atlanta, Ga.)View Full Item in Georgia State University. LibrariesEnvelope description: University of Georgia [UGA]; Students; Class Activties; Agriculture School Scenes; [Military Building(e)] Local identification number: LBCB112-089a Lane Brothers Commercial Photo…
University of Georgia students playing baseball, 1946
Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers (Atlanta, Ga.)View Full Item in Georgia State University. LibrariesEnvelope 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, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 1950
View Full Item in University of Wisconsin Digital CollectionsWomen playing baseball at the University of Wisconsin--Madison.
“Basket Ball and Indoor Baseball for Women” by Helen Frost, 1920
Frost, HelenView Full Item in New York Public Library“Baseball for Girls and Women” by Gladys E. Palmer, 1929
Palmer, Gladys EView Full Item in University of MichiganBibliography: p. 139-140.
Margaret Donahue, first woman corporate officer in Major League Baseball, with Chicago Cubs, 1929
View Full Image in Huntley Area Public LibraryMargaret 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, Secretary for Chicago Cubs, with Cubs tickets
View Full Image in Huntley Area Public LibraryMargaret 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…
Helene Robison Britton, owner of St. Louis Cardinals
View Full Item in Claremont Colleges LibraryA brief profile of the owner of the St. Louis Cardinals team. Publication unknown.
Elsie Boyd Lombard Brush, part-owner of New York Giants
View Full Item in Billy Rose Theatre Division. The New York Public LibraryJoan Whitney Payson, co-founder and majority owner of New York Mets
View Full Item in Cornell UniversityUnmounted 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…
Boston Bees players with their wives at Braves Field, 1939
Jones, Leslie, 1886-1967View Full Item in Boston Public Library(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…
Mississippi Public Broadcasting interview with Mrs. Dizzy Dean about her husband’s life and career, 1970s
View Full Item in Mississippi Public BroadcastingSeries: A Conversation With Time: 28:30 PGM: Mrs. Dizzy Dean An interview with Patricia Dean, wife of professional baseball player Dizzy Dean.
Philadelphia Phillies and New York Mets wives’ softball game, 1972
Bernato, AnthonyView Full Item in Temple University"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…
