Women and Baseball

Vassar College women's baseball team, 1866
Source: Baseball Hall of Fame


Young Ladies Base Ball Club #1, c. 1890
"This is most likely 'Franklin's Young Ladies Baseball Club' which barnstormed during 1890 and 1891."
Source: Nineteenth-Century Base Ball Pictures on the World Wide Web

 

Boston Bloomer girls baseball team arrives in Oregon (1908).
Source:www.oregon.k12.wi.us/. ../boston.html

 

AMANDA CLEMENT
1888-1891
Umpire
First woman ever paid to umpire a baseball game.
Source: The Girls of Summer

 

Source: www.ragersville.org/ altaweissnews03.htm


MAUD NELSON
(Clementina Brida)
1881-1944
Third Base

Western Bloomer Girls
All-Star Ranger Girls

For over forty years, Maud Nelson was active in every facet of women's baseball. She was a pitcher, played third base, scouted, and owned or managed some of the finest women's teams.
Source: The Girls of Summer

 

EDITH HOUGHTON
Born 1912
Catcher
Philadelphia Bobbies, 1922-25
New York Bloomer Girls, 1925-31
Hollywood Girls, 1931
Philadelphia Phillies (scout), 1946-52
Source: The Girls of Summer

 


LIZZIE MURPHY
1915-1935
First Base
Boston All-Stars, 1918-1935
American League All-Star Game, 1922
National League All-Star Game, 1928
Source: The Girls of Summer


Babe Didrikson and Jimmie Foxx
Source: National Women’s Baseball Hall of Fame


Babe Didrikson with the House of David
Source: National Women’s Baseball Hall of Fame

Jackie Mitchell caption

Source: The Girls of Summer
 


Harrisburg Senators, 1952
Source: Angelfire

 

All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

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