Loretta was sixteen, restless, and looking for adventure – something she knew couldn’t be found on her parents’ farm. Reading through the newspaper one day in 1924, Loretta found the answer: an all-women pro baseball team. […]
Ever since she was a little girl, Pat Scott wanted to be a baseball player. Local semi-pro players taught her to play hardball and throw overhand, and with her mother as catcher, Pat developed a good heater delivered with pin-point accuracy that made her a star of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. […]
In 1907, a teenage girl defied the standards of the day by pitching for a men’s baseball team. A year later she was barnstorming across the Midwest, with 3,000 fans filling Cleveland’s League Park to see “The Girl Wonder” play ball. […]