In the Thief River Falls photo, the women are wearing the same type of long dresses with long sleeves worn by women in the early pictures of Vassar baseball teams, adhering to the Victorian standard of feminine modesty. and others have documented that women played baseball as early as 1865 at Vassar College. See Dorothy Jane Mills, A Woman’s Work: Writing Baseball History with Harold Seymour, (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004).
Baseball historians Gai Berlage, Harold Seymour,While Harold Seymour is the author of record for The People’’ Game, which includes five detailed chapters on women’s baseball, Dorothy Jane Mills, Seymour’s wife at the time, convincingly describes how she was the main researcher and writer for these chapters. This note suggests that there were multiple women’s teams playing competitively at this time. The note accompanying the photo reads, “Thief River Falls Ladies Baseball Team Champions of Northern League, 1893.”Courtesy of the Pennington County Historical Society. The earliest evidence that women played baseball in Minnesota is a photo from Thief River Falls, dated 1893, of ten female players with two male player-managers. This article focuses on women’s baseball in Minnesota from the 1890s through World War II. Paul Saints and Duluth Dukes independent league baseball teams, while numerous girls across the state have played Little League and high school baseball. In more recent years, left-handed pitcher Ila Borders played on the St.
#1940 WORLD SERIES PLAY BY PLAY PROFESSIONAL#
In 1944, Minnesota was home to a professional women’s baseball team, the Minneapolis Millerettes, one of six teams in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, made famous through the film A League of Their Own. In the early years, from the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, women played baseball in Minnesota on college campuses, in industrial leagues, through local church and community groups, and on barnstorming teams. This article focuses on women’s baseball in Minnesota from the 1890s through World War II.ĭespite the fact that the great American pastime has been almost exclusively identified as a male sport, women have played baseball in Minnesota for over 100 years. Yankee CF Joe DiMaggio (.352, 31 HR, 133 RBI) edged Chicago’s Luke Appling for his second consecutive AL batting title.Despite the fact that the great American pastime has been almost exclusively identified as a male sport, women have played baseball in Minnesota for over 100 years. Cardinals 1B Johnny Mize (.314, 43 HR, 137 RBI) led the Senior Circuit in homers and runs batted in and finished as the MVP runner-up for the second straight season. Cleveland’s 21-year-old flamethrower Bob Feller threw a no-hitter on Opening Day and finished the season with a league-leading 27 wins, 2.61 ERA, and 261 strikeouts in 320 innings.
#1940 WORLD SERIES PLAY BY PLAY FULL#
Detroit slugger Hank Greenberg (.340, 41 HR, 150 RBI) captured the AL MVP award in his final full season before being one of the first Major League players to be drafted for military duty. 309 with 19 homers and 127 RBI to earn the NL MVP award. Reds 1B Frank McCormick led the league in hits for the third straight year, hitting. The Tigers outscored Cincinnati 22-6 in their three wins, but Detroit lost in seven games as the Reds won their first championship since the 1919 Black Sox series. Detroit nosed ahead to take the pennant by a single game over the Indians and two games over the disappointing Yankees. The Junior Circuit was tight all the way with Cleveland, Detroit, and New York fighting it out to the last weekend. The Cincinnati Reds ran away with the National League using great defense and the top-notch pitching of Bucky Walters (22-10, 2.48 ERA) and Paul Derringer (20-12, 3.06 ERA).
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