Chicago, Illinois

4 clippings from Chicago, Illinois.

Photo feature headed Beauty at Bat. A large portrait shows pitcher Gloria Marks of the Racine team smiling with a catcher's mitt on one hand. The caption says she comes from San Diego, was second choice in a beauty contest held at an Army camp judged by Bing Crosby from girls' photos, and will help open the Girl's National Softball League at Wrigley Field Sunday. Below, six players from the Kenosha and Racine teams stride across the field in flared skirted uniforms holding gloves and balls: Irene Ruhnke, Elise Harney, Marion Wohender, Annabella Thompson, Leola Mae Brody and Gloria Marks.

Beauty at Bat

All-American Girls Softball League
Chicago, Illinois · 1943

Bordered feature headed Batting Figures Can Be Fat—but That's All!, by Jayne Miller, reporting from Chicago that a new league where a slim figure will be as important as a fat batting average opens tomorrow with the backing of two major league baseball magnates, P. K. Wrigley of the Chicago Cubs and Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The 70 girls wound up spring training partly at Wrigley Field and partly in a beauty parlor. A photo shows shortstop Terrie Davis of the Rockford team at bat, with the caption Her batting figure may not be the envy of a major leaguer, but it looks good from where we sit.

Batting Figures Can Be Fat—but That's All!

All-American Girls Softball League
Chicago, Illinois · 1943

Short news item headed Softy Girls Plan Major Pro Loop, reporting from Chicago that the new all-American Girls' Professional Softball League, backed financially by Phillip K. Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs, plans to operate this summer mainly in the Chicago area but will scout for talent throughout the Nation, with tryouts in May in cities throughout the United States.

Softy Girls Plan Major Pro Loop

All-American Girls Softball League
Chicago, Illinois · 1943

News item headed Carey Is Named Pilot Of Girls' Ball Teams, reporting from Chicago that Max Carey, best remembered as one of the National League's top base stealers and once Brooklyn manager, will manage one of the six teams of the All-American Girls' Professional League, joining a managerial staff of Marty McManus, Claude Jonnard, Bert Niehoff, Jack Kloza and Johnny Gottselig, with franchises in Racine, Kenosha, Rockford, South Bend, Milwaukee and Minneapolis.

Carey Is Named Pilot Of Girls' Ball Teams

All-American Girls Professional League
Chicago, Illinois · 1944