Leslie
Heaphy /
Ladies
Leagues
Women in Baseball
Committee Newsletter
November
2000
Vol. XXII
@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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I wish to begin
this issue of our newsletter in a different fashion than usual because I
want to acknowledge how much we as a committee will miss one of our members,
Jerry Malloy and all he did in helping us keep alive the history of women
who played baseball in the past.
Jerry was a wonderful researcher and
friend. If you ever needed anything if Jerry could help you out
he did. His responses were always
timely and incredibly comprehensive.
The thing I will miss most is Jerry himself, he was a great friend
to all and his warmth, humor and love for the game of baseball will be
missed.
In the last newsletter
I included our growing list of suggestions for inclusion in a committee
publication and had hoped for some strong responses from the committee but
only received 2 or 3 more so I have little to add to our list and feel that
it is now time to begin making some decisions or this idea will languish
and never result in any real work.
I think it is a great idea and want to move
forward. I am asking one last
time for input on our list but also comments from the members about the type
of publication we are looking at.
I have had mixed responses back so far whether we want to proceed
with just a top 25 book or one that does bios of all women in
baseball? What do you
think? I need to know how you
all wish to proceed.
Below is our list
of top 25 as they have been selected so far--these are the candidates that
have received the most votes. (
A question was asked why 25--we thought that was a doable number but that
could easily be changed if the committee thinks we need to expand that
number)
Ila
Borders
Effa Manley
Toni
Stone
Dorothy Seymour
Pam
Postema
Alta Weiss
Dottie
Collins
Margaret Gisolo
Rose
Gacioch
Dottie Kamenshek
Sophie
Kurys
Babe D. Zaharias
Mamie
Johnson
Lizzie Murphy
Jackie
Mitchell Jean
Faut
Helen
Callaghan
Maud Nelson
Helene
Britton
Lee Ann Ketcham
Julie
Croteau
Amanda Clement
Doris
Sams
Betty Weaver Foss
Anne
Occi
Others nominated
include:
Katy
Feeny
Linda Alvarado
Mindy
Rich
Cordelia Candelaria
Stephanie
Leathers
Elinor Nauen
Janet M.
Smith Barbara
Gregorich
Effa
Manley
Marge Schott
Joan W.
Payson
Connie Morgan
Connie
Wisniewski
Dottie Schroeder
Jean
Faut
Audrey Wagner
Willie
Briggs
Maxine Kline
Lib
Mahon
Bonnie Baker
Pepper
Paire
Jo Winter
Audrey
Wagner
Doris Sams
Faye
Dancer
Lois Forreich
Helen
Dauvray Colorado Silver
Bullets
Lizzie
Arlington Margaret
Nabel
Edith
Houghton Ruth
Lessing
Wendy
Selig
Kim Ng
Elaine Weddington
Steward
Lib
Dooley
Heather Nabozny
Mary Ann
Simmons
Ruth Ann Steinhagen
Marianne
Moore
Rachel Robinson
Jean
Yawkey Mrs. Barney
Dreyfuss
Eleanor
Engle
Girls who fought
to play Little League
Philip
Wrigley
P J Brun
Gina
Satriano
Christina DeLuca
Christine
Sears Jo Curone
Terri Lynn
Herbst
Stephanie Itsell
Tammy
Holmes
Margaret Donahue
Grace
Comiskey
Mrs. Nugent
Mrs.
Robison
Please send me your
votes by the beginning of January. This will be the last time I ask for nominations or ideas
for format so that we can then proceed to assigning articles and actually
beginning to work on the publication
itself. I think this is a great
project for our committee and very
doable.
Keep sending me
information and I will be sure it gets passed along.
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Recent books,
articles, websites and other projects.
Thanks to the following people for sending
material.
Gai Berlage, Gene
Carney, Dick Clark, Larry Lester, Jerry Malloy, Barry Swanton, Joan Thomas,
Justine Warren, Tim Wiles, Lisa Wulf.
(**Denotes item
available for a SASE, 1 stamp per 4 pages).
WWW.MSWBL.COM--
new website from the Cleveland area.
It is an on-line baseball magazine to promote and inform people about
women's baseball.
**"Effa Manley,
She Loved Baseball" (4 pp)
Sports Documentary
by HBO "Dare to Compete: The Struggle of women in Sports"
"Jackie Robinson's
Integration of ML Baseball: A Unique Opportunity for 3 Black Women to Play
Negro League Baseball" by Gai Berlage in Cooperstown Symposium,
2000
"Baseball" by Gai
Berlage in International Encyclopedia of Women and Sport
"From Bloomer Girls
Baseball to Women's Softball" by Gai Berlage in Cooperstown Symposium,
1999.
**"MLB Announces
Commissioner's Initiative on Women and Baseball" (4pp)
** "Bonnie's the
Belle of the Ball Game" Sport May 1947, vol. 2, No. 5 (
4pp)
** "Christine
Wren: Women in
Blue" in Baseball Bulletin,
July 1976.
"A Woman's work"
by Dorothy Mills
** Obit on Joanne
Weaver
"The Queen of
Diamonds" by Bob Fulton in The
National Pastime, 1999.
** "Lady Ball Player"
from 1953 Ebony on Toni Stone (10 pp)
** "Legends of
Baseball" Grand Rapids Press,
June 18, 2000. (10 pp)
** "Grand Rapids
Chicks Left Special Legacy for Local Fans" Grand Rapids Press, June 18, 2000.
(4 pp)
** "Diamond Vision"
by Bruce Fretts, All Star Game Program, 2000. ( 3 pp)
** "Stepping up
to the Plate" by Lisa Marie Dirks in Women Next ( 4pp)
Check out
htpp://www.wnebl.org/
http://freehosting1.at.webjump.com/37496924d/nj/njnemesis/
http://www.eteamz.com/hallfame/
** "Who was on First?"
by Brett Shamosh in Oxygen Sports
** "Living a Dream"
by Sue Macy in Oxygen Sports
** "Border Control"
by Staci Blagovich in Oxygen Sports
** "Stranded" in
The North American Review, by Barbara Gregorich, on 1925 team in
Japan
Marge Schott,
Unleashed by Mike Bass, 1993.
Lady in the Locker
room by Susan Fornoff, 1993.
"When the Umpire
Strikes Out: Gender Discrimination
in Professional Baseball" Women
Lawyer's Journal, 79, no. 4 (9/93)
"Major League Baseball:
Not for men Only" Ebony, 53
(10/1/98)
**"Lady Slugger"
on Tammy Holmes in Jet, 10/14/96
** "Replacement
Players, circa 1883" Harper's Magazine, April 1995
** "The Girls of
Summer" by Gene Smith in American Heritage, 1994
** "Say it Ain't
so" by Mary Farrell in People
Weekly, June 6, 1994
** "Out of her
League" in sports Illustrated,
May 30, 1994
** "Level the
Field" Sports Illustrated, May
23, 1994
** "Into the Park"
in women's sports and Fitness, April 1994
** "Hardball: There's
nothing soft about the only women's baseball league in the US" in Women's
Sports and Fitness, April 1992
** "A league of
their own" Women's sports and Fitness, Nov-Dec. 1991
"Where is our Field
of Dremas?" Ms. Magazine, Sept-Oct. 1991
** "All but forgotten
now, A women's baseball league once flourished" Jay Feldman, Sports Illustrated,
June 10, 1985
** "Peanut's Straight
Pitch" Hartford Courant,
9/30/99
**
"Often Overlooked Stars Sparkle" Washington Post, 11/18/99 on Mamie
Johnson
** Obit on Twila
Shively
** "Peanut Is her
name, baseball is her game" Detroit Free Press, 9/16/99
** "In a league
of her own" Winnipeg Sun, June 13, 2000
** "Effa Manley
for the Hall" from Outside the Lines, Aug. 31, 2000
Essay on Effa Manley
by Amy Essington
** Two Obits on
Dolores Moore
American women
in
Sport
by Ruth Sparhawk, et al 1989
** Obit on Mary
Flaherty
** "A School of
Her Own" Everett Advocate, a school named for Maddy
English
** "Grandma Played
Pro Baseball" from AAGPBL Newsletter
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Research
Requests
Justine Warren continues
to look for input as to why women play
baseball. Ideas can be sent
to her at
Jwarren101@aol.com.
Any articles about
the AAGPBL Summer 2000 reunion?
Please pass on to Leslie Heaphy.
The Public Museum
of Grand Rapids is looking for memorabilia, artifacts etc for an exhibit
on baseball they are planning for the year
2003. If you can help them out
or want to learn more about their plans you can reach them at Public Museum
of Grand Rapids, 272 Pearl Str., NW, Grand Rapids, MI
49504
Watch for more details
about a women's baseball conference being held in Cleveland in
2001. Justine Warren is coordinating
this effort.
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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The website
www.MsWBL.com has added some new features
regarding teams from around the world. Justine is also looking for articles and other ideas for
the website.
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AAGPBL Beveled glass
ornaments/suncatchers/paperweights/glassware and mugs available from The
Woodn'Glass Collection, 3635 N. 300 W., Angola, IN
46703 (219)
833-2614
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http://www.womenplayingbaseball.com/
a good link to all
kinds of information about women's teams and tournaments around the
country.
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Interested in writing
a review for our newsletter? How
about writing up your thoughts on Susan Johnson's book When Women Played
Hardball? Or Girls of summer by Lois
Browne. 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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Sarah Jane
Sands
played outfield
and catcher for the Rockford Peaches in 1953 and
1954. Originally from Orangeville,
Pennsylvania Sands joined the Peaches after meeting scout Charles
Schuler. She learned her love
of baseball from her father who was a big
fan. She played in 136 games
with a .210 avg and a .954 fielding percentage in 112 games in the
outfield. After her baseball
career Sands went on to coach Little League and a women's slow pitch softball
team. Sands also played some
semi-pro basketball at Olmsted Air Force base in Middletown, PA in
1955-56.
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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.
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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