Leslie
Heaphy /
Ladies
Leagues
Women in Baseball
Committee Newsletter
November
2004
Vol. XXXV
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 fall has been
a busy time for womens baseball with a variety of tournaments, a world
series and the first World Cup event all being held in various
places. Japan won the
4th World Series title by a score of
14-4. The United States won
the Gold Medal in the World Cup.
The New England BoSox beat out the Ocala Lightning this year to win
the AAU National Championship by a score of
2-1. The North Shore Lady Spirit
just returned from a exhibition tour in the Dominican Republic where they
played four games and won them all.
And these are just a few of the
highlights. If you see articles
on any of these games, team etc please send them to
me. This is how we can record
the history now, rather than later.
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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Encyclopedia
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.
There is still a short window of opportunity to get in touch with
me if you are a ball player so your information can be
included. E-mail me at
Lheaphy@stark.kent.edu
ASAP.
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Recent books,
articles, websites and other projects.
Thanks to the following people for sending
material.
Dick Clark, Jim Glennie, Larry Lester, Patsy Scott,
Justine Siegel, Wayne Stivers,
(**Denotes item available for a SASE, 1 stamp
per 4 pages).
**Daisies, Blue Sox Ready for Exhibition
Contest. 5/19/49
Lima News
** Babe the Greatest on Babe
Didrikson
All American
Girls Professional Baseball League,
1943-54.
1986, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
The History of the
AAGPBL. Thesis by Jeni
Leis, 1998.
Kenosha
Comets,
1943-51. By John W. Bailey,
1997. Badger
Press.
** Scorecards, Scrapbooks and
Stats: Girls, Women and the
Game of Baseball.
** Women in the
Stands.
** Baseball and the Womens
Question.
** All but Forgotten Now from
Sports Illustrated, 1985.
November
21, 2004 a Goodwill game between Japan and Korea in
Seoul. Any one know the
results? The game was
played at Chamshil Stadium.
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 St. Louis Black Bronchos please send to Leslie
Heaphy.
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 for someone working on an
article.
Her name was Audrey
Wagner and she played in the AAGPBL from 1943 through 1949 with the Kenosha
Comets. Her career average was
.254 in 694 games. She stole
206 bases and walked 257 times.
She started in the league when she was only 15 and made two All-Star
teams and was player of the year in 1948 when she hit
.312. {Information from Larry
Fritsch Card, 2000}
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. What about taking pictures
at a game and saving them.
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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, Alex Sickinger
1B Dottie
Kamenshek
2B Toni
Stone
3B Jean Weaver/Maddy
English
SS Dorothy
Harrell/Dorothy Schroeder
OF Helen
Candaele
OF Betty Foss (Weaver),
Gina Satriano
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), Pam Davis
U Sophie
Kurys
U Elizabeth
Mahon
U June
Peppas
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? Or the
current players who have been added to this list.
Send me your picks and Ill
continue to add them in the next newsletter.
Team USA winning
Gold
I recently came
across a video tape of the season opener for the San Jose Spitfires one
year. Anyone aware of any other
game videos like this that are available and should be acquired for preserving
history?
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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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