Leslie
Heaphy /
Ladies
Leagues
Women in Baseball
Committee Newsletter
June
2004
Vol. XXXIII
@Society for American
Baseball Research
Send info., questions,
submissions, etc to Leslie Heaphy, 135 Hillcrest Ave North Canton, OH 44720,
or e-mail; Lheaphy@kent.edu
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The new baseball
season is now underway for both men and
women. New teams have been formed
(such as the Motown Magic or the team from Philadelphia), lots of tryouts
are being held and Team USA has been narrowed down to 34
players.
The SABR Annual
Meeting is coming before you know it and is in Cincinnati this
year. We will have a committee
meeting on Sunday Morning and you should watch for more exciting details
as we hope to have a couple of special guests present to make some
presentations.
I attended the Vintage
Baseball Association annual meeting in March and was excited by what is happening
there. They are doing a fair
amount of research on 19th century womens teams and more
teams are being created to play by those rules
now. Rochester seems to have
been an area where womens participation was
encouraged.
The 2004 season
is underway for a lot of womens teams and before long youll see
articles with some tournament results we
hope. If you see any send them
along.
Has any one heard
anything yet about Shanna Kook the newest female umpire in the
game?
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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Book Project
Update: Articles are being revised and the
manuscript is slowly coming together.
The project grows every day as I continue to hear from players and
others, especially those involved today.
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Recent books,
articles, websites and other projects.
Thanks to the following people for sending
material.
Dick Clark, Larry Hogan, Justine
Siegal
(**Denotes item available for a SASE, 1 stamp
per 4 pages).
Reviews of Pat Browns
A League of My Own
**Reviews of
Girl
Wonder: A Baseball story in
Nine Inningsa story based on the life of Alta
Weiss
** Womens League Brought Dream to
Life September 1993
** The Second Career of Woody English
September 1988
** Playing Hardballs A Down and Dirty
Escape from Real Life.June 1993
** No League of Their
Own
**Articles on the NYWBA
Check
out the National Womens Baseball Hall of Fame website if you have never
been there before. They archive
all copies of their monthly newsletter and it includes information on each
years inducteesthis years have already been
named.
The
2004 World Series is scheduled for July 15-23 in Uozo City,
Japan. This will be followed
on July 30 by the start of the IBAF World Cup of Baseball in Edmonton,
Alberta.
Over the July
4th holiday many teams will be in Washington, D.C. at their
invitational. And the WBL sparks
play in Cooperstown from July 2-9.
Labor Day will find
the Great Lakes invitational taking place.
September
23-26 is the West Coast Invitationallots of baseball out there for
us to go out and be supportive of.
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.
If you have a topic
you are researching let me know what it is and I can now check the bibliography
I have for what articles, collections etc I am aware of on all kinds of
subjects.
Anyone with any
information about the Dolly Vardens please send to Leslie Heaphy and it will
be passed on to a student working on a school paper.
Anyone with any information at all about former
player Urseal Williams of the Knoxville Giants or Isabel Baxter please pass
that on to Leslie Heaphy.
Anyone with any
knowledge or information about the South Side Bloomer Girls of Youngstown,
Ohio please pass that on the Leslie Heaphy and it will be given to the person
searching.
Farren, Patricia
Farren grew up playing little league with her brothers but ended up on the high school softball team because there was no baseball team for girls. Farren played softball, basketball and field hockey in East Windsor, Connecticut but no organized baseball. She played softball at Southern Connecticut State and then got married and moved to Virginia. She played for three seasons in the Washington Metropolitan Womens Baseball League, taking trips for tournaments to Florida. After her family moved back East Farren continued her career with the Lowell Robins in the NEWBL in 2000. {Kaster, Julie. Baseball Diamonds this Girls Best Friend. Eagle-Tribune, 25 July 2000.}
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Trivia
question:
Who led the AAGPBL
in hitting in 1946 and what was her average?
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Ever get a chance to interview any women ball
players? We need to be thinking
about documenting the current game as women are playing so that we are not
searching for the stories 30 years from
now.
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Member
News
An interesting question
posed to your chair and one I continue to 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)/Linda McGill
P Doris Sams/ Connie
Wisniewski
P Pat Scott/Mamie
Johnson
P Dottie Wiltse
(Collins)
U Sophie
Kurys
U Elizabeth
Mahon
U June
Peppas
Others
suggested:
Charlene
Wright
Katie
Pappa
Ruth
Richard
Jean Faut
Eastman
Dottie
Ferguson
What 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 continue to add them in the next newsletter.
Fairies
of the Field
A team calling themselves the Fairies of the Field reported losing a game to a mens team in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1885. They lost the game 14-4. The team was composed of all ladies except the catcher who was a man. {New York Clipper, 12 September 1885, 403.}
Did you know that
Rhonda Palmer hit .518 last year for the S.F. Fillies?
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Please send
correspondence, questions, suggestions, ideas to Leslie Heaphy for future
newsletters. 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
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