All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

As a little girl being a cheerleader was my biggest dream. Seeing them on TV and at school inspired me to one day be like them and do all the amazing tricks they would do. It wasn’t until my twelfth birthday that finally joined a tumbling class at a cheerleading gym. All I had asked for my birthday was to be in tumbling class I thought it was extremely difficult to actually in an all-star team so I decided to just be in a tumbling class. Since I loved it so much I would practice all the time…

game of softball. Just a little over four decades earlier, Alexander Cartwright, the “father of baseball” formalized the rules, or codes, of “townball”. What is townball? Who exactly is Alexander Cartwright? What does this have to do with softball? All valid questions you may or, may not have right now. Townball or base are both older colloquial terms used to describe, what would become American baseball. Many news sources such as the Westchester Journal and multiple St. Louis City Directories…

consequences to the home, the children, and our country. When our boys come home from war, what kind of girls will they be coming home to?” This quote is taken from the film A League of Their Own when a woman on the radio, Maida Gillespie, is disgusted with what is happening to the “role” of women in America. However, its not only her that is appalled at what is happening, but also most of American society at the time. Women were used to staying in the home to take care of the children, cook and…

The All American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) was founded by Philip K. Wrigley during World War II. Over six hundred women from around the United States played in this league while their loved ones fought in the war, earning them money and them being able to play the game they love. Several Major League executives created the AAGPBL to help them try to keep baseball in the publics eye. The AAGPBL helped bring these executives money to keep their stadiums open to the public so when…

of the movie A League of Their Own? I personally have never seen or heard of the movie until I had to watch it for class. The movie A League of Their Own is a film that tells us about the recounted account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). The movie talks about how the girls were view as entertainments, then eventually as athletes. The movie also talks about why the AAGPBL is not around anymore. I find it degrading to women that the “girls were viewed as…

a game. They will take you on their adventure of being the first all women's baseball league. The Rockford Peaches work as a team and never gave up even though money was low during good years, and bad years. The Peaches start was difficult to get the team together. Professional Chicago Cubs P.K. wants women to play baseball (Randle, 1992). Having 120 games a year, and be first girls in the league while playing professional baseball, so Dottie Kamenshek and James Whitcomb Riley came up with…

The impact of World War II on baseball had many different effects as it impacted not only baseball at the current time, but the future of baseball as well. Players with the likings of Ted Williams, Bob Feller, Joe DiMaggio, Hank Greenberg, and many more traded in the bat and ball for a pair of boots and a rifle. While the names previously listed were said to not have been put on the front lines, they still joined the forces and went to fight for this country when they could have been playing the…

them. Therefore, baseball was affected by the attacks as well. Over 500 MLB players left the diamond for the battlefield (Weintraub). With so many players leaving, it was feared that Major League Baseball might become defunct. World War I had ended the 1918 season early. An armistice agreement had to save the 1919 season. The president at the time, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, put an end to those worries as he said, “I honestly feel that it would be best for the country to keep baseball going”…

I have realized that there have not been any women in Major league aseball since baseball has started. When young women finish college from softball, they have an opportunity to join the big leagues, but decide not to. What I am quoting is that if the women have good talent and are incredible, professional players, give them an idea of joining by asking them if they would like to join due to many reasons of how intelligent they are. I would not know how you would do that, but I am sure that you…

There is no question that in American society baseball is America’s pastime. Although, most American’s would argue that football has taken over as the most popular sport in America. But for those who truly admire the game, like me, would absolutely disagree. Watching two rival teams duel it out from the first pitch to the last, or a pitcher going for a no-hitter, nothing is more exciting. ''Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball,'' Jacques Barzun, the…