Betsy Jochum won the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League's batting title in 1948. But it took "A League of Their ...

Throughout history, women in baseball have fought to play a sport they love, enduring everything from unreasonable uniforms and rules, to harassment and physical threats. While individual women ...

Betsy Jochum’s 1940s baseball tunic was tailor-made for the American woman’s transition from ... now 97 and a resident of South Bend, whose uniform resides in the Smithsonian National Museum ...

On top of receiving full uniforms (to keep ... There’s no crying in baseball, and there are no women in baseball either. Sure, girls can play on Little League baseball teams, as Bitsy did ...

Dorothy “Dottie” Kamenshek was one of the greatest women baseball players ... and an authentic uniform from the era signed by Kamenshek and other women ballplayers. “I think this is just ...

Her baseball uniform is in a Smithsonian Museum display ... "While we were there, some woman came up and grabbed my hand and said, 'Oh, I want to thank you for what you've done for women in ...

to the women who helped him through the early years of his diagnosis — hence the collection’s name: “My heroines didn’t wear capes, they wore baseball uniforms.” “It’s the story of ...

another woman followed Mitchell into baseball’s minor leagues. Eleanor Engle, a softball player and stenographer in Pennsylvania, joined the Harrisburg Senators and was pictured in uniform in ...