70th Anniversary – Women Get “A League of Their Own”

On May 30, 1943, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) made its debut, with the South Bend Blue Sox (Indiana) beating the Rockford Peaches (Illinois), 1-0 and the Kenosha Shamrocks (Wisconsin) beating the Racine Belles (Wisconsin), 8-6. Women in Baseball Women have been playing professional baseball since the 1940s, yet it wasn’t really a [...]