Leslie
Heaphy /
Ladies
Leagues
Women in Baseball
Committee Newsletter
August
2004
Vol. XXXIV
Copyright@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 SABR Annual
Meeting took place in July in Cincinnati this
year. We had a good meeting
on Sunday with an extra special guest.
Bill Marshall helped arrange it so that Pat Scott, former Fort Wayne
Daisy player, came and spoke to the
group. She did a wonderful job
of talking about how she learned the game and some of the highlights of being
in the League. Bill also presented
some of the positives that have resulted from the existence of the AAGBL
while we also looked at some of the difficulties of the
league. We hope to build on
this idea and do something on a larger scale for next years meeting
which will be in Toronto.
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.
We expect to have the manuscript to the publisher before the end of
the year for a 2005 publication.
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Recent books,
articles, websites and other projects.
Thanks to the following people for sending
material.
Jim Nitz, Terry Aamodt,
(**Denotes item available for a SASE, 1 stamp
per 4 pages).
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.
Anyone ever here of Ruth Calloway, a second baseman in the 1930s for the Portsmouth Black Sox. She was reported as a fine fielder and a hitter with about a .275 average.
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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.
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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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