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1930s – The "Bold Years" for women's baseball; women baseball players toured internationally, played junior baseball, and signed minor league contracts. 1943–54 – The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) was started by Philip Wrigley , owner of the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley's Chewing Gum .
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) was a professional women's baseball league founded by Philip K. Wrigley, which existed from 1943 to 1954. The AAGPBL is the forerunner of women's professional league sports in the United States. Over 600 women played in the league, which eventually consisted of 10 teams located in the ...
The association was largely responsible for the opening of Women in Baseball, a permanent display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, which was unveiled in 1988 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. In addition, the association recognized players who had contracts with the league, even though they ...
Women have a long history in American baseballand many women's teams have existed over the years. Baseballwas played at women's colleges in New York and New England as early as the mid-nineteenth century;[1]teams were formed at Vassar College, Smith College, Wellesley College, and Mount Holyoke College.[2] An African Americanwomen's team, the ...
Virne Beatrice "Jackie" Mitchell Gilbert (August 29, 1913 – January 7, 1987) [1] was one of the first female American pitchers in professional baseball history. She was 17 years old when she pitched for the Chattanooga Lookouts Class AA minor league baseball team in an exhibition game against the New York Yankees, and struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in succession.
1930 – The 1930 Women's World Games were held in Prague, Czechoslovakia. 1930 - The first international women's handball game was played in 1930 (between Germany and Austria). [79] 1931 – Women were banned from playing professional baseball by Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Mildred Ella " Babe " Didrikson Zaharias (/ zəˈhɑːriəs /; née Didrikson; June 26, 1911 – September 27, 1956) was an American athlete who excelled in golf, basketball, baseball, and track and field. She won two gold medals and a silver in track and field at the 1932 Summer Olympics before turning to professional ...
Edith Grace Houghton (February 10, 1912 – February 2, 2013) was an American professional baseball player and scout.A former shortstop in women's baseball whose professional career began when she was ten years old, [1] Houghton became the first female scout in Major League Baseball when she joined the talent-spotting staff of the Philadelphia Phillies of the National League in 1946.