Adult Afternoon Program: WISCONSIN WOMEN AND THE ALL AMERICAN GIRLS PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL LEAGUE

Wisconsin Women and the All American Girls Professional Baseball League: Play Ball! with Bob Kann

During the 1940s and 1950s, thirty-seven athletic and determined women from Wisconsin made a BIG difference. Over the period of 1943-1954, they were among the more than 550 women who played professional baseball in the All American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGBPL) depicted in the movie A League of Their Own. In this presentation, Bob Kann, the biographer of one of the Kenosha players, Joyce Westerman: Baseball Hero, shares stories about Wisconsin women who grew up during the Great Depression, worked in factories and on farms, and eventually played professional baseball.