Leslie
Heaphy /
Ladies
Leagues
Women in Baseball
Committee Newsletter
June
2002
Vol. XXVII
@Society for American
Baseball Research
Send info., questions,
submissions, etc to Leslie Heaphy, 2214 31st str, NW Canton, OH
44709, or e-mail; Lheaphy@stark.kent.edu
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The Annual SABR
Meeting is nearly here and there are lots of exciting things planned for
those who make it to Boston. Watch
for the announcement of our committee meeting and attend to hear more from
our members about the various projects that are being worked
on. There is a lot of exciting
stuff happening.
I just received
the brochure announcing this year’s Women’s World Series scheduled
for September 2-8th.
The series will take place in Tampa
Bay. For more information contact Jim Glennie at
webmaster@wibba.com or check out
the website at
www.wibba.com.
Cooperstown hosted
“A Forum on Women’s Baseball” on April 20th,
2002. In addition to a number
of speakers from the WBL the movie “A League of Their Own” was
also shown. If anyone attended and can send me a report of what happened
that would be great.
A number of former
players from the AAGPBL were in Cooperstown on Mother’s Day for a
celebration marking the 10th Anniversary of the release of the
movie that brought so much attention to the league and women in
baseball. If anyone attended
and would be willing to send in a report of what they saw it will be published
in the next newsletter.
Please send me any
and all articles, programs, citations etc that you
find. It will be better for
me to receive the information four times than not at
all. You can either mail the
materials to me or attach them as e-mails or even fax an article to me at
330-494-6121. Thanks in advance
for your continued help in preserving the history of women in
baseball.
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Committee Project
Update: Letters have gone out to those who
have expressed an interest in writing or researching for this book
project. If you are interested
and have not let me know in the past please send me a note with your expertise
and I will be in touch. This
is an exciting project and opportunity for our committee to help spread the
word about the history of women and
baseball. There are lots of
pieces to the project so please e-mail or drop me a quick note with your
interest.
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Recent books,
articles, websites and other projects.
Thanks to the following people for sending
material.
Jim Glennie, Andy McCue, Priscilla Astifan, Justine
Warren, Tim
Wiles
(**Denotes item available for a SASE, 1 stamp
per 4 pages).
** “Women Having a
Ball.” A review of “Baseball
Girls.”
** “Diamonds are a girl’s best
friend.”
** “Amateurs in skirts on Baseball Field”
NYT 10/2/04
Research
Requests
Sue Daggett is looking
for any information out there on a Helen Landry who played in the 1930s for
the “Chicago Girls Club” and the “Athletic
Girls.” Anyone with any
information can send it directly to Sue at
Cazdaggett@aol.com or to Leslie Heaphy
and I will pass it on.
Frank Fitzpatrick
is looking for information about the Dolly Vardens who played in the
1860s. Any help you can offer
him please send directly to Leslie Heaphy or to Frank
at
ffitzpatrick@phillynews.com
What are you looking
for? What are you currently
working on? Let us know and
we can help one another as we are doing our research.
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Trivia
Questions
Who was Edna Bolden Shorter?
Last Newsletter:
What was Alice Hohlmeyer’s nickname when
she played?
Can you name the teams that played in the 2001
Women’s World Series in Toronto?
Team USA, Japan, Team Canada and
Australia
Have a good question
to ask our members? Please send
it in before the next newsletter for inclusion.
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Cleveland/Akron
has a new team this year. Their
first practice was April 7th at Summit Park in
Akron. For more information
about this team e-mail
tom@royhobbs.com
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Interested in writing
a review for our newsletter? How
about writing up your thoughts on books about the
AAGPBL? Or a review of the movie
Baseball Girls.” Send your
reviews to Leslie Heaphy for inclusion in the next
newsletter. If you have another
book you'd like to review write up your comments and send them
in.
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Member
News
The new website put together by Dorothy Mills
is now up and running at
www.haroldseymour.com.
Lots of interesting materials can be found on this new
site.
Reunion
2002
South Bend, Indiana,
September 26-29th. The
focus will be on women’s baseball in the past, present and
future.
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Please send
correspondence, questions, suggestions, ideas to Leslie Heaphy for future
newsletters. Also, I heard from
a number of you and am grateful for the responses. Those who did not respond
please try to let me know whether you still wish to receive our
newsletter. Please write or
e-mail me as to whether you wish to continue to be on the mailing
list. If I do not hear from
you I will not be sending future issues of the newsletter.
Our committee is only as active as you the members help
to make it. Thanks for your
help in keeping our list updated.
Just a reminder that some of you have not paid your dues to SABR yet
this year and should send that in if you also want to continue receiving
other SABR publications.
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Thanks,
Leslie and
Claudia
