Leslie
Heaphy /
Ladies
Leagues
Women in Baseball
Committee Newsletter
April
2002
Vol. XXVI
@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 new baseball
season is upon us and there is a lot to be excited
about. There are a growing number
of womens teams playing and leagues developing for young girls to develop
their skills. A Second Women
in Baseball Conference took place this past February in Florida and exciting
plans seem to be underway. Included as a part of the conference was a clinic
to teach the fundamentals to girls ages 7-16.
Information is now
available on the Disney World Tournament being played this June
12-16. For more information
please contact
info@baseballglory.com. This tournament is for girls 18 and
under.
Give Back and Grow
Tour, June 29-July 14 will be stopping in various cities to promote and educate
the public about womens baseball.
At the Annual SABR
Convention this summer in Boston look for our committee meeting time and
come hear about our work as a committee.
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: Guidelines are being finalized and
prepared for authors. A beginning
list of topics and people has been created with the committee input
included. Letters will be going
out to many of you asking you to write specific sections based on your interests
you have shared with me previously.
If you would like to be involved and have not let me know of your
interest and are of expertise please do so
soon. If you are not interested
in writing but would be willing to do some research for the various entries
please let me know that as well.
There is lots of room for the entire committees
participation. The general timeline
we are looking at is to have the first round of articles turned in by October
2002.
Some of the topics
will include: an historical overview, Little League integration, Bloomer
Girls, female owners, etc.
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Recent books,
articles, websites and other projects.
Thanks to the following people for sending
material.
Jim Glennie, Tom Griffin, Diane Hoffman, Arthur
Schulman, Justine Warren, Laura Wulf
(**Denotes item available for a SASE, 1 stamp
per 4 pages).
** A New League of Their Own from
the Boston Globe, 12 May 1999
** Article from South Bend News Times about Jackie
Mitchell
** Girl Catcher is on Joplin Ball Clubs
Payroll
** short article on Emma
Britton
** Ball team of Negro
Girls
** Womens Baseball Team is Forming
in Akron, Ohio
** Clowns Sell Toni Stone, Sign New Feamle
Star.
** Replacement Players, circa
1883. From Harpers
Magazine about a game in September 1883.
** One of the Leagues best pitchers,
Janelle Freese-Khramov, delivers a fastball for the Los Angeles
Legend.
** Lightning Strikes, Ocala Takes USWB
Title.
** Lizzie is Mound Ace on Young Boys Nine
** Girls of Summer by Carey L.
Draeger
** The Belles of the Ball Game
Were a hit with Their Fans by Jack Fincher
Popular Science Monthly, 13 October 1896 has an
article by Sophia Foster Richardson about baseball at
Vassar
In addition to books and articles specifically
on Women and baseball watch the increasing number of books coming out on
womens sports in general.
Many of them include sections on baseball.
Research
Requests
Anyone know anything
about the Sooner State League that operated from
1947-1957? We are trying to
find out if there might have been a womans team in the league, associated
with Arthur Meyer. If you have
any information about this at all please let me know and Ill pass the
details on.
One of our readers
is looking for information about women playing baseball in NY in the
1920sspecifically her great grandmother Maggie
Riley. Any help can be sent
directly to Leslie Heaphy or
to Rachel at
msmet13@earthlink.net
Steven Smith is
looking for any information that can be provided to him about womens
barnstorming teams of the 1940s and
1950s. Also, were the Springfield
Sallies still together at all in 1951?
Any information can be sent to Leslie Heaphy or to Steve Smith
atgbbl@nevermail.net
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
Maddie Johnston
is a fan and player in London who is looking for information about teams
in England. Anyone with any
ideas can send them directly to me and I will forward them to
her.
Suzanne Howarth
is looking for information on women who have played professional
softball. Ideas can be passed
on through Leslie Heaphy. She
is particularly interested in African-American women
players.
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
What was Alice Hohlmeyers nickname when
she played?
Can you name the teams that played in the 2001
Womens World Series in Toronto?
Last Newsletter
What positions did
Faye Dancer play when she was in the AAGPBBL?
Answer: OF mainly
but also 1b and pitcher
Have a good question
to ask our members? Please send
it in before the next newsletter for inclusion.
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Want to be published in our newsletter? I continue
to look for reviews, player bios, short articles, poetry--anything that you
are writing about women and baseball.
Share your work with others who share your
interests.
Allison Adams
Played for Team
USA for the first time in 2001. An
infielder who bats and throws righthanded, Alli coaches softball at Severna
Park High School in Maryland.
Before joining Team USA Adams played for the Baltimore Blues, a member
of the Eastern Womens Baseball Conference.
(information from
her Team USA baseball card, put together by Jim Glennie)
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Interested in writing
a review for our newsletter? How
about writing up your thoughts on books about the Colorado Silver
Bullets? 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
Watch for the unveiling of a new website
(www.HaroldSeymour.com) put together
by Dorothy Mills. The site will
have a variety of features including reviews of all the books that have won
the Seymour Award, some baseball history and other
sections.
Grand
Rapids Reunion 2001
From the reports
coming in on the annual AAGPBL Reunion it seems like the return trip to Grand
Rapids was a big success. The
Grand Rapids Chicks were inducted into the local Sports Hall of Fame as part
of the festivities.
Congratulations on this honor!
Congrats to Wilma
Briggs on being elected to the New England Womens Sports Hall of Fame
in recognition of her career with the Daisies and the Blue
Sox.
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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