Leslie
Heaphy /
Ladies
Leagues
Women in Baseball
Committee Newsletter
January
2003
Vol. XXIX
@Society for American
Baseball Research
Send info., questions,
submissions, etc to Leslie Heaphy, 135 Hillcrest Ave North Canton, OH 44720,
or e-mail; Lheaphy@stark.kent.edu
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As you are planning
your activities for this year be sure to include the annual SABR Convention
in July. I just received word
from Gail Rowe that they are looking for abstracts from those wishing to
present at next years Annual Meeting in
Colorado. Abstracts should be no more than 250 words and can be
sent along with a brief biographical sketch and an indication of audio-visual
needs to Gail Rowe at 7205 Poudre River Rd #6, Greeley,
CO 80634 or
growes36@attbi.com
Poster presentations
are also encouraged.
In addition if you
would be interested in serving as a blind reviewer for the selection of
presentations send your name to Gail
Rowe. The deadline for submissions
is March 15, 2003.
Committee member
Jean Ardell is currently finishing a book on women and baseballlook
for it soon. Dorothy Mills continues
to update and develop her website on baseball which includes discussion of
this committees activities.
Our book project
is slowly moving forwardmore details below.
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 been sent and assignments
made on some of the needed articles for our book
project. 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
things still to be done. Whether
you just like to do research or want to write please contact me if you are
interested in being involved and have not been contacted
yet. Our first set of deadlines
is not until February 2003 and there will be others after that so it is not
too late to help out with this committee project.
Three manuscripts have arrived
in recent weeks so there is progress being
seen. We hope to have all the articles written by the end of
2003 and see the book in late 2004-early 2005.
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Recent books,
articles, websites and other projects.
Thanks to the following people for sending
material.
Jean Ardell, Amy Brunner, Dick Clark, Jim Glennie,
Roy Hobbs, Larry Hogan, Tom Kearney, Jim Nitz, David Oliver, Justine Warren,
Tim Wiles, Bill Williamson, Laura
Wulf
(**Denotes item available for a SASE, 1 stamp
per 4 pages).
** A Team of Their
Own-7/94
** When the Chicks were Champs, But Not
Many Fans Cared Milwaukee
Journal 7/31/94
** Mamie Peanut Johnson: The
Last Female Voice of the Negro Leagues
** Belle of the Ball
2000
** Diamonds in the
Rough 8/7/02
** Our Forgotten World
Champions
Marge Schott,
Unleashed1993
** The Kid who Really Was
One
1997
** Krissy Wendell
1995
** Girl Has Major League Dreams
2001
** Transition of Womens
Baseball
** Black Woman Pitcher Made U. S. History
2002
**Toni Stone Was one of the Only Women to
Ever Play Baseball with Men
1994.
Research
Requests
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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Got word from Tom
Giffen that womens baseball is now a sanctioned sport of the AAU for
a one year probationary period and possibly up to 3.
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Be sure to check
out www.BaseballGlory.com and
www.uswb.org for all the latest news on
womens baseball
From their latest
newsletter:
A team called the
WBL Sparks is looking for players aged 12 and under to join
them
Third annual WBL
conference is being planned for March 2003
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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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Excerpts from
an Interview with Ann
Batikisfound on the diamond
angle web site along with many other interviews and
articles.
Went out for tryout and made the cut in
1945. Ann played CF for the
Racine Belles in 1945. She loved the travel but not the scrapes and
bruises. Shed love to see more opportunities for women to
play the game today. After her
playing days ended Ann went on to teach for 35 years.
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Member
News
An interesting question
posed to your chair and one I now share with all of youIf you had to
put together a womens all-star team with 5 pitchers and 3 utility players
in addition to your regulars who would you include and
why? Send your replies to me
and the results will be shared with the rest of the committee in future
newsletters and in the near future on our newly revamped
website.
Womens
All-Star Team
C Mary
Bonnie Baker
1B Dottie
Kamenshek
2B Toni
Stone
3B Jean Weaver/Maddy
English
SS Dorothy
Harrell/Dorothy Schroeder
OF Helen
Candaele
OF Betty Foss
(Weaver)
OF Jane Stoll/Joanne
Weaver
P Jean Cione/ Ila
Borders
P Helen Nicol
(Fox)
P Doris Sams/ Connie
Wisniewski
P Pat Scott/Mamie
Johnson
P Dottie Wiltse
(Collins)
U Sophie
Kurys
U Elizabeth
Mahon
U June
Peppas
These names came
from two rosters that were submitted to mewhat do you
think?
Agree/disagree? Who would you want on your
team? What about some of the
earlier women ball players like Loretta
Lipski? Send me your picks and
Ill include them in the next newsletter.
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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