The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: Pioneers in Their Own Right
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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 adequate labor. Driven by the fear that Major League Baseball would be shut-down for the duration of the war, Philip K. Wrigley created a women’s league as a back-up plan to keep baseball alive. The league existed from 1943 to 1954. It eventually became known as the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). The aim of this project was to look at the stories and experiences of the women of the AAGPBL through oral history interviews and relate those experiences to the larger social developments and norms of the 1940’s and 1950’s. The examination focused on how these women were able to acquire the skills necessary to play baseball at a professional level traditionally dominated by men; how as women they were able to slip through the cracks of societal norms while others accepted t
Published as part of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Journal of Undergraduate Research, Volume 7 (2004)
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GrawOzburn, Clement C
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- Recollection Wisconsin
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- University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
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- University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
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- University of Wisconsin-La Crosse -- Students -- Research -- Periodicals
College students -- Research -- United States -- Periodicals
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- English
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- GrawOzburn, Clement C. The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: Pioneers in Their Own Right. 2004. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digitalcollections.uwlax.edu/jsp/RcWebImageViewer.jsp?doc_id=3c1bba49-8c02-45b4-b439-dac96b962476/wlacu000/00000013/00000225. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
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- GrawOzburn, Clement C, (2004) The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: Pioneers in Their Own Right. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digitalcollections.uwlax.edu/jsp/RcWebImageViewer.jsp?doc_id=3c1bba49-8c02-45b4-b439-dac96b962476/wlacu000/00000013/00000225
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- GrawOzburn, Clement C. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://digitalcollections.uwlax.edu/jsp/RcWebImageViewer.jsp?doc_id=3c1bba49-8c02-45b4-b439-dac96b962476/wlacu000/00000013/00000225>.