History of women's baseball, including the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
Girls can play baseball, too -- and here are some children's books about girls in history and fiction who've played the All-American game. Both girls and boys will enjoy the action in these books and the idea of succeeding against the odds.
Alice "Lefty" Hohlmayer, veteran of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League, answers commonly-asked questions.
Begun while many men were fighting overseas, this women's professional baseball experiment lasted into the 1950s.
A complete list of the players and teams of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League, 1943-54.
Strict standards of conduct were expected of the players, on and off the field.
These rules show how close the game the "girls" played was to Major League baseball games -- the differences include pitching styles, and diamond and ball size.
Articles by and about players in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Some are biographies of the players.
How close was the movie "A League of Their Own" to the real league? and other common questions about the A-AGPBL.
History of the All American Girls Baseball League, from Alice "Lefty" Hohlmayer, one of the players.
Some questions and answers from an interview with the AAGPL shortstop and catcher. One of them: Would you do it again? "Yes--yes--yes--a thousand times yes!"
John B. Holway's interview with Paire Davis starts out with this wonderful quote: "We had to look like ladies and play baseball like men."
A membership site promoting women's baseball. Inductees include Ballentine, Geyer and Didrikson. (May play loud music on load.)
Career statistics for this 10-year veteran of the AAGPBL who served as technical advisor to
League of Their Own.
The Exploratorium Museum with an online exhibit on women playing baseball from the early 1900s.
