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... The major league baseball teams lost half their players to the war while the minor league teams lost 3000 players to either the armed forces or to war related jobs. At that time, only 9 of the 26 minor league teams had enough players to play baseball. ... , a chewing gum company, was fearful of the demise of baseball. In the fall of 1942, Wrigley assigned a three-man team from the Cubs organization to explore the possibility of a female professional baseball team. ... They wore knee socks and regulation baseball cleats. ... Many of the young girls in the cities would flock around the players asking for their autographs and dreaming of the day they too would be able to play for a major league girl’s baseball team. ...
The game itself was played initially with a combination of baseball and softball rules. ... The ball was pitched underhanded as opposed to overhand or side arm like the professional baseball players threw. These rules and distances would eventually change over the years to the same rules as men’s baseball as the girls got better.
In July of 1943, the name was changed to All-American Girls Baseball League. ... Junior teams were added starting in 1946, due to the interest shown by younger girls to play baseball. ... By 1954, the name had been changed once again to American Girls Baseball League with more than 550 players eventually playing in the league. ... It was at this time the players voted to change the league name, for the final time, to the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. By 1988, the remaining members had convinced the Baseball Hall of Fame to develop a permanent exhibit entitled “Women in Baseball”. ...
On November 5, 1988, one hundred and fifty members of the Girls League Alumni Association, along with many family members and friends, gathered in Cooperstown, NY to see the opening of their display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum.
While there are no known professional women’s baseball teams today, there are many little league teams, high school teams, even college teams, that have girls playing.
Approximate Word count = 2084
Approximate Pages = 8.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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