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The first known women's baseball team played at Vassar College in 1866, [2] while there were several barnstorming Bloomer Girls teams [3] (sometimes including men). [ 4 ] With the entry of the United States into World War II , several major league baseball executives started a new professional league with women players in order to maintain ...
During World War II, there were also some women who umpired, including some the press jokingly referred to as "WUMPS" (women umpires). Among them was Lorraine Heinisch, of Kenosha WI, who umpired semi-pro games in 1943, including a championship game in Wichita, Kansas. [125] The first woman to umpire a professional game was Bernice Gera. [126]
The league underwent a name change during the season: It began as the All-American Girls Softball League., [2] but midway through the 1943 season, the name was changed to the All-American Girls Baseball League (AAGBBL). [3] The AAGPBL began with a 12-inch softball but incorporated baseball rules.
Ruth Richard [Richie] (September 20, 1928 – May 6, 2018) was an American baseball player who played as a catcher from 1947 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 4", 134 lb., she batted left-handed and threw right-handed. [1] [2] Richard spent eight seasons in the All-American Girls Professional ...
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 ...
The Rockford Peaches were a women's professional baseball team who played from 1943 to 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. A founding member, the team represented Rockford, Illinois. The Peaches were one of 2 teams to play in every AAGPBL season, the other being the South Bend Blue Sox.
With the majority of major-league baseball players in the military during World War II, Phil Wrigley owner of the Chicago Cubs, established the AAGPBL in 1943 where it continued until 1954. The first year the league played by softball rules, but that gradually changed until it was nearly identical with professional baseball.
Wagner was born and grew up in Bensenville, Illinois, and began to play sandlot ball with the boys of her neighborhood when she was a little girl. At age 15, she attended Bensenville Community High School, where she heard about Philip K. Wrigley and his remarkable experiment in creating a women's professional baseball league during World War II.