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The Museum's original Women in Baseball exhibit opened on Nov. 5, 1988. (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum) Spencer had acquired the cards in a 1984 meeting with Sharon Roepke, who also provided him with a pamphlet on the league and its history. Sure enough, after Collins’ and Spencer’s requests, the deluge came.
- League of Women Ballplayers | Baseball Hall of Fame
The history of women playing the game of baseball dates back...
- They also played: Black women in baseball - Baseball Hall of Fame
From 1943 to 1954, women played pro baseball in the...
- League of Women Ballplayers | Baseball Hall of Fame
Do or die! The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League ( AAGPBL) was a professional women's baseball league founded by Philip K. Wrigley, which existed from 1943 to 1954. The AAGPBL is the forerunner of women's professional league sports in the United States. Over 600 women played in the league, which eventually consisted of 10 teams ...
Through the organization of the Players' Association in1987, and through their efforts to gain recognition by the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988, the league has now come to be recognized as what it was in actuality: the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL).
The history of women playing the game of baseball dates back to at least the 1860s, when Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. fielded a team. Some 80 years later, arguably the first formal women’s professional baseball league, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, first took the field.
The association was largely responsible for the opening of Women in Baseball, a permanent display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, which was unveiled in 1988 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. In addition, the association recognized players who had contracts with the league, even though they ...
2024 AAGPBL Reunion - Cincinnati. The AAGPBL Player's Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the History of the AAGPBL and supporting women and girls all across our country who deserve the opportunity to play "Hardball". Please donate and help support our efforts to preserve and maintain women's baseball.
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From 1943 to 1954, women played pro baseball in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The opportunity came because of World War II and the need to provide entertainment on the home front. The league could have ended when the war was over, but it did not. Instead, hundreds more women got to play baseball through the 1954 season.
