Leslie
Heaphy /
Ladies
Leagues
Women in Baseball
Committee Newsletter
October
2002
Vol. XXVIII
@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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World Series time
is upon us and I hope you are enjoying the games as they take
place. Maybe one day we can
enjoy watching the Womens World Series on television as
well. That would be reason to
celebrate.
Claudia shared that
our meeting in Boston went well with good attendance and lively
discussion. We have added a
number of new committee members and look forward to their
contributions. Jean Ardell has
a book coming out soon so watch for it.
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.
Did you hear about
the no-hitter pitched by Jennifer Hunter earlier this
summer? She pitched against
an all-boys team.
This summer the
Fort Wayne Oldtimers Baseball Association inducted five new members into
their Hall of Fame. Included
in this group were Vivian Kellogg, Maxine Kline and Dottie Schroeder, all
of the Fort Wayne Daisies.
Congratulations to you all on this honor!
Miller Parks
Walls of Honor added Annastasia Batikis of the Racine Belles and Ellen Tronnier
of South Bend to those they have paid tribute
to. Congratulations for this
honor.
According to the
latest newsletter from the Latin American Committee the Cuban Baseball Hall
of Fame included among its 21 new inducteesJacinto Jackie
Hernandez.
The Players Reunion
this fall was in South Bendany
articles? Please send them
along.
The AAU has agreed
to sanction the Womens Baseball National Championship in November in
Fort Myers.
Just learned from
Eddie Bedford that in his class on the Negro Leagues are some students who
are interested in the women players and as part of the class they will get
the opportunity to interview Mamie
Johnson. What a great educational opportunity for
them.
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.
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Recent books,
articles, websites and other projects.
Thanks to the following people for sending
material.
Jean Ardell, Dick Clark, Jim Glennie, Roy Hobbs,
Larry Hogan, Lou Hunsinger, Larry Lester, Phyllis Otto, Lou Parrotta, Justine
Warren, Tim Wiles, Bill Williamson, Laura
Wulf
(**Denotes item available for a SASE, 1 stamp
per 4 pages).
** Hall of Fame Hosts Roundtable with Former
Members of AAGPBL by Lou Parrotta in the
Boonville
Herald
** Obituary for Faye Dancer from
Newsday 6/2/02
** Oldtimers Association Has Induction
Ceremony.
** Pioneer didnt Play Just for
Peanuts
** Another obituary on Faye DancerLos Angeles
Times 6/1/02
** Women Striving to Get League Its Turn
at Bat
** Womens Baseball Hits the Strike
Zone
** Baseball Veteran Hopes to Form League
of Her own
** Diamond Club Isnt Just for
Men
** Diamond
Cutters
** Its Time to Let Women Play
Ball
** Nicholle Strikes a
First
** June Rose Schofield, Ballplayer in Storied
Womens League
** She was no Joke for Indy
Clowns
** Negro Leagues of Their
Own
** A Solitary
Journey: Lefthander Ila Jane Borders by Jean Ardell (2
stamps)
** Ila Borders, Pitcher by Jean
Ardell
(2 stamps)
** A League of Their Own by Lou
Hunsinger
** Obituary on Millie Deegan
Look for the new book
Making Her Mark by Ernestine
Miller. It includes a chapter on womens
baseball.
Research
Requests
Anyone know anything
about a Wanda Maldonado who played amateur ball in Puerto
Rico. Please send information
directly to Leslie Heaphy.
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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Have a good question
to ask our members? Please send
it in before the next newsletter for inclusion.
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Be sure to check
out www.BaseballGlory.com and
www.uswb.org for all the latest news on
womens baseball
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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.
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.
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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