One of the most successful teams was the Racine Belles. With baseball ... among other honors. Beyond baseball, several girls continued as pro athletes in women’s divisions.

From 1943 to 1954, hundreds of young women played professional baseball for teams around the Midwest. The inaugural 1943 season featured two teams from Wisconsin—the Racine Belles and the ...

Any number of powerful consorts, witches, reformers and suffragists populate the history of women in the United ... story of the Rockford Peaches, Racine Belles and all the rest was memorialized ...