1940's Lifestyles and Social Trends | A Guide for All-American Girls

Guidebook

By: All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

Date: 1943

Source: All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. A Guide for All-American Girls. 1943. National Baseball Hall of Fame Library. Reproduced online at http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/education/primary%5Fsourc... ; website home page: http://www.baseballhalloffame.org (accessed March 24, 2003).

About the Organization: In 1943, Philip K. Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs, founded the All-American Girls Baseball League (AAGBL). Originally a softball league, the AAGBL evolved into the first women's professional baseball circuit. The league had franchises in fifteen cities, all in the Midwest. Two hundred sixty-one players from twenty-four states,...