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 ...

Two women who’d gone to school together in New Jersey were there celebrating their 60th birthdays—Nina Kaplan, a Boca Raton mother of four who had never played baseball before, and Elizabeth Osder, ...

it was one of the very few cities with a team in women’s professional baseball at that time. The AAGPBL Champions Series also includes the Kalamazoo Lassies, Rockford, IL Peaches, Racine Belles ...

MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee has a strong baseball history with the Brewers and the Braves. However, many people probably have not heard of the city's professional women's team that won a championship.

Baseball Superstar Alex Hugo to Lead First Women's Professional Baseball Tryouts in Over 70 Years, Registration Now Open for Players Around-the-World BOSTON, April 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today ...

The number of women working professionally in baseball has also grown. Kim Ng made history in 2020 when she became the first woman general manager of an MLB team, the Miami Marlins. As of 2023 ...

For most baseball fans, hope springs eternal on Opening Day. Many of those fans – more than you might think – are women. The number of women working professionally in baseball has also grown.

That most beloved, fun movie was based on the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL), which disbanded in 1954. According to ESPN, MLB lifted its ban on women participating on ...