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Women’s League Baseball

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All American Girls Professional Baseball League Women’s Baseball league.
Among Players visible are Dottie Schroeder, Kate VonDroll, Patt Scott, Jean Marlow, Tibby Eisen, the great Joanne Weaver the movie ” League of their own” was based on these Women.

Women’s baseball is currently played in several countries. The strongest and most organized women’s baseball leagues are in the United StatesAustraliaJapan,TaiwanCubaHong Kong, and Canada. Those countries have national governing bodies that support girls’ and women’s baseball programs. Other countries/regions that currently have organized women’s baseball are the NetherlandsIndiaKorea,VenezuelaArgentinaPuerto RicoColombiaBrazilthe Dominican Republic, and Pakistan. There also are a handful of women playing baseball in Vietnam currently on the Fishanu team at Ha Noi University and on the Hanoi Baseball Club.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/355339-the-history-of-womens-baseball-leagues-in-1943

For a brief number of years in the 1940s and early 50s, women had a professional baseball league to call their own. Originally designed as a means to counteract the effects of World War II, the women’s pro league enjoyed a good deal of success for several years. The 1992 movie “A League of Their Own,” starring Tom Hanks and Geena Davis, was based on the league and some of its more colorful characters.

The Beginning

In 1942, as minor league baseball teams were disbanding because of World War II, Chicago Cubs owner and chewing gum mogul Philip Wrigley feared major league teams might do the same. He funded research to look for a solution, and the answer was to create an all-women’s professional league to keep baseball alive during the war. The major leagues did not shut down, but the All American Girls Softball League began in 1943 just the same.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women’s_baseball

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