Little League Baseball Illinois
When Women Played Hardball by Susan E. Johnson,
The years between 1943 little league baseball illinois and 1954 marked the magical era of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League - which proved beyond doubt that women can play hardball. With skill little league baseball illinois and style, more than 500 women took to the baseball diamonds of the Midwest dazzling fans little league baseball illinois and becoming a visible little league baseball illinois and supported part of our national pastime. In the words of "Tiby" Eisen, leadoff batter for the Fort Wayne Daisies: "We played ball just like the big boys, we broke up double plays with spikes held high little league baseball illinois and we stole bases in our skirts. We did whatever it took to win". Among those cheering was ten-year-old Susan Johnson, a loyal fan of the Rockford Peaches. Four decades later she has gone back to meet her girlhood heroines little league baseball illinois and remember a sensational baseball series: the 1950 championship between the Rockford (Illinois) Peaches little league baseball illinois and the Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daisies - two of the League's most winning little league baseball illinois and dynamic teams. Filled with colorful stories little league baseball illinois and anecdotes by the women who played in that spectacular series, When Women Played Hardball offers an entertaining look at the culture the league created - little league baseball illinois and the society it reflected. This is a story about memories, about dreams fulfilled little league baseball illinois and dreams denied. It is a celebration of a brief yet remarkable period when women truly had "A League of Their Own".
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