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2. slate.com › human-interest › 2013Life magazine, 1945: Why it was the greatest magazine ever ...

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   Dec 27, 2013 · Life’s cover, Sept. 24, 1945. Photo by Slate, Life Magazine © Time Inc. L ast summer in a used bookstore, I happened on an enormous, bound volume of Life magazine, from...

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3. www.life.com › arts-entertainment › baseball-classicBaseball: Classic Photos of the National Pastime From LIFE ...

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   LIFE’s Best Baseball Pictures. After umpire William Grieve issues a walk to a Washington pinch-hitter, Red Sox manager Joe McCarthy and catcher Birdie Tebbetts express their doubts about Grieve's judgment, 1949. Michael Rougier/Life Pictures/Shutterstock SEE DETAILS

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   Why did the women's sports league fold?

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   When did the All American girls professional baseball league start?

   • As the documentary, film, and now TV series "A League of Their Own" explores, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) existed from 1943 to 1954, fielding 15 teams, employing nearly 600 athletes, and drawing in more than a million fans in a single season with its high quality of play.

   The Real Women Who Inspired A League Of Their Own - Grunge

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   Who was the first woman to own a baseball team?

   • In 1911, she became the first known woman to own and manage a team — the Western Bloomer Girls — along with her husband John B. Olson Jr. She continued playing, managing, scouting, and coaching through the 1930s until the Great Depression made running a women’s baseball team unsustainable. Goodbye for now.

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   When did women start playing baseball?

   • The natural successor to college ball is professionalism, where women also gained a foothold. On September 11, 1875, two teams competed in Springfield, Illinois. Dubbed the Blondes and Brunettes, the players became the first known women to be paid for playing baseball.

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5. oldlifemagazine.com › may-21-1945-life-magazineOriginal Life Magazine from May 1945, 21 - Old Life Magazines

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   Roller Derby in Chicago, including photos of Vera Minenko, Evalyn Karran, Gerry Murray, Midge Brashun and others - tough women. Very nice full page color Belmont Television ad with little boy in baseball uniform watching baseball.

6. www.life.com › history › behind-the-picture-the-Buchenwald: Photos From the Liberation of the Camp, April 1945

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   (At the end of this gallery, see how the original story on the liberation of the camps appeared in the May 7, 1945, issue of LIFE, when the magazine published a series of brutal photographs by Bourke-White, William Vandivert and other LIFE staffers.)

7. allthatsinteresting.com › womens-baseballWomen's Baseball: When Athleticism Was Patriotism

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   Jul 22, 2015 · In times of crisis, call a woman. This maxim has been lived throughout history, but is certainly evident during World War Two. When American women weren’t building airplanes, ships and munitions to aid in the war effort, others were entering the baseball field.

8. tht.fangraphs.com › the-stop-and-start-history-ofThe Stop-and-Start History of Women’s Baseball

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   Aug 12, 2019 · When attendance reached over 450,000 in 1945, the league added two more teams for 1946. Even as the men started to return from the war, women were taken seriously as athletes and baseball...

9. www.grunge.com › 976674The Real Women Who Inspired A League Of Their Own - Grunge

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   Aug 23, 2022 · As the documentary, film, and now TV series "A League of Their Own" explores, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) existed from 1943 to 1954, fielding 15 teams, employing nearly 600 athletes, and drawing in more than a million fans in a single season with its high quality of play.