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National League owners at the December 1911 league meeting; Helene Hathaway Britton is the only woman present. Since the beginning of Major League Baseball, women have rarely held high executive positions in team franchises. On occasion, however, women have ended as majority owners of Major League franchises.
Women have a long history in American baseball and many women's teams have existed over the years. Baseball was 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]
In 2020, Major League Baseball designated the following seven Negro leagues from 1920–1948 as major leagues: [2] Negro National League I (NNL I) (1920–1931) Eastern Colored League (ECL) (1923–1928) American Negro League (ANL) (1929) East–West League (EWL) (1932) Negro Southern League (NSL) (1932) Negro National League II (NNL II) (1933 ...
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.
The 1958 Major League Baseball season began to turn Major League Baseball into a nationwide league. Walter O'Malley , owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers and "perhaps the most influential owner of baseball's early expansion era," [ 69 ] moved his team to Los Angeles, marking the first major league franchise on the West Coast. [ 70 ]
1990s – American Women's Baseball League (AWBL; also known as American Women's Baseball, AWB) was founded by Jim Glennie in an effort to unite women's baseball teams and leagues around the country and to provide support to them. 1992 – A League of Their Own movie about the AAGPBL was produced by Penny Marshall.
2022 - Alyssa Nakken became the first woman to coach on the field in a regular season major league baseball game on April 12, 2022, when the San Francisco Giants substituted Nakken into the game as the first base coach after Antoan Richardson was ejected during the top of the third inning of a game against the San Diego Padres. [489]
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