The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A Biographical Dictionary

by W.C. Madden

Book Overview

For a dozen years in the 1940s and 1950s, more than 700 women played professional baseball in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Though some saw their brand of ball as a sideshow or wartime diversion, the women were all tough competitors and superb athletes. They set records that remain unequaled by their male counterparts, including Sophie Kurys' 201 stolen bases in a single season and Joanne Winter's 63 consecutive scoreless...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786422637
• ISBN13: 9780786422630
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

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Finally getting the list of AAGPBL players right!

Here's your copy, pilgrim, of the book that lists the players and all of the stuff of researchers of the "League of their own" and a great reference book for any library, public or private. I've used it more than expected and recommend it as my primary source for All American Girls Professional Baseball players. Several other SABR members have it, as well and I haven't heard a single bad word yet. Well done! Mark Braun Old Timers' Baseball Association of Chicago