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The Kalamazoo Lassies were a team who played from 1950 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.The team represented Kalamazoo, Michigan.Home games were initially played at Lindstrom Field, but later games were played at the Catholic Athletic Association Field, now the Soisson-Rapacz field.
- 1954
- Lindstrom Field, Catholic Athletic Association Field
On 6 September 1954, the Kalamazoo Lassies defeated the Fort Wayne Daisies 8-5 in the last AAGPBL game ever played. The Lassies were champions, but it was probably small consolation to a group of women who had devoted so much of their time and energy into making professional women’s sports an important and viable component of American culture.
About the Kalamazoo Lassies. The League steadily declined during 1949 and 1950. This led to another reorganization of the administrative arm of the League. The cities became the owners of the team in 1950. There were internal problems during the transition and veteran players were leaving the League. The first city to be effected by the ...
The Lassies were one of the more popular teams in the league, and they enjoyed a five-season run in Kalamazoo. But the American Girls’ Baseball League had already peaked by the time the Lassies came to town, and by 1954 the league was in its final season.
The Kalamazoo Lassies (1950-1954) Men’s teams weren’t the only ones making news in the local sports pages during the postwar years. During the late 1940s, the Kalamazoo Lassies were one of the more popular teams in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AGBL), and they enjoyed a five-season run in Kalamazoo.
Mar 31, 2021 · The Kalamazoo Lassies were a crucial part of the A.A.G.P.B.L, and the last World Champions the league ever saw. When millions of men were drafted during World War II, over 600 women joined 10 different teams in a league that spanned from 1943 to 1954.
Jul 15, 2021 · The Kalamazoo Lassies are the defending All-American Girl's Professional Baseball League Champions. And they will be honored Friday night (July 16th) on what was once their home field, now known as Homer Stryker Field at Mayor's Riverfront Park.
