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Front page story headed Trailbreakers In Girls Baseball Arrive For Practice, Plan Exhibition Games, reporting that a baseball aggregate of 144 damsels moved into Pascagoula for two weeks of spring training, arriving from Canada and almost every state in the Union by train and bus. A sidebar headed Mother Plays In League profiles Racine pitcher Joan Winter and Pat Keagle, one of three mothers in the league. The continuation from page six adds WAC veteran Gloria Tippy Tipton, who played exhibition baseball across Europe, a section headed Girls Not Tomboyish quoting players on men and marriage, Esther Johnson, whose uncle played ball with the St. Louis Cardinals, and Rockford shortstop Dorothy Snookie Harrell, who works off seasons as an I.B.M. key punch operator. The story closes: And these are only five of the 144, there are all types and sizes of girls in the league, but when they are together there is just the one job for them all, baseball.

Trailbreakers In Girls Baseball Arrive For Practice

All-American Girls Baseball League
Pascagoula, Mississippi · 1946

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