“Domestic Dugout,” Mount Carmel (PA) Item, 20 June 1945.
Christine Mai-Duc, “Sophie Kurys Dies at 87, Star of Women’s Professional Baseball League,” Los Angeles Times, 25 February 2013.
Erin Allen, “A League of Their Own,” Library of Congress Blog, 3 April 2013.
“The 1950s,” Emazed.
Ryan Reft, “Sporting Golden State: Women and Athletics in 20th Century California,” KCET, 20 March 2014.
American Legion Softball League Team, 1939.
Masculine vs. Feminine
“Toronto Nymphs Shaking Out: 1930s Photo Spread of Girl Softball Players,” In Their Own League, 19 August 2013. (Above)
“Weibliches Deutschland,” Pinterest. (Right).
Dr. Arabella Kenealy and Dr. Dudley Allen Sargent
William Randolph Hearst
Philip K. Wrigley and Arthur E. Meyerhoff
Headlines
No Slacks, No Cuties. Such hoydenish antics have long irked Phil Wrigley, a pioneer softball patron who can remember when the game was known as
kittenball among Chicago's early devotees. Other things that Patron Wrigley objected to were the unladylike costumes affected by the players and the
undignified names their sponsors tagged on them — such as Slapsie. Maxie's Curvaceous Cuties, the Num Num Pretzel Girls, Barney Ross's
Adorables and the Dr. Pepper Girls of Miami Beach.
“Odorous Comparisons,” Alton (IL) Evening Telegraph, 25 May 1944. (Left)
“Latest in Softball Dress,” Decatur (IL) Daily Review, 12 May 1943. (Middle)
“Ladies of the Little Diamond,” Time, 14 June 1943. (Right)
AAGPBL vs. Industrial Softball
Rosie the Riveter
Saturday Evening Post, 29 May 1943.
“No Galpower Shortage,” Escanaba (MI) Daily Press, 20 May 1944. (Above)
“Domestic Dugout,” Mount Carmel (PA) Item, 20 June 1945. (Left)
“Dugout Damsels,” Longview (TX) News-Journal, 10 June 1943. (Above)
“Girls Major in Softball,” Danville (PA) Morning News, 11 May 1943. (Left)
“No Galpower Shortage,” Escanaba (MI) Daily Press, 20 May 1944. (Above)
“Lefty’s Right,” Franklin (PA) Evening Star, 9 August 1944. (Right)
“No Galpower Shortage,” Escanaba (MI) Daily Press, 20 May 1944. (Above)
“A New Manpower Shortage, Ladies,” 19 May 1944, courtesy of the History Museum at South Bend, Indiana. (Left)
“Sal’s Softball Belles,” 1948, IWBC Archives.
“Gay Gardener,” Bend (OR) Bulletin, 24 July 1946.
“Doc’ Wagner,” Deadwood (SD) Pioneer-Times, 10 August 1948. (Left)
“Beauteous Backstop,” Courier Journal (Louisville, KY), 13 April 1948. (Right)