Who founded this women's professional baseball league that existed until 1954 in which Berith Melin played an outfielder?
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Berith Melin Berith Melin [ Ahlquist] (May 2, 1918 – December 11, 1977) was an outfielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She batted and threw right-handed.
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All-American Girls Professional Baseball League The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was a women's professional baseball league founded by Philip K. Wrigley which existed from 1943 to 1954. Over 600 women played in the league. In 1948, league attendance peaked over 900,000 spectators in attendance. The Rockford Peaches won a league-best four championships while playing in the AAGPBL. For most of the league's history, manager Bill Allington coached different teams and led the league in career wins as a manager. The 1992 motion picture "A League of Their Own" tells a fictionalized account of the Rockford Peaches.
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Al Bradley Albert Joseph Bradley (May 23, 1856 – February 5, 1937), was a Major League Baseball outfielder who played in one game on May 21, 1884, for the Washington Nationals of the Union Association.
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Jane Stoll Jane Stoll ("Jeep") (August 8, 1928 – May 27, 2000) was an outfielder who played from 1946 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 2", 135 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.
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Channel Cities Oilers The ""Channel Cities Oilers"" were a minor league level team in the California League that played from 1954 to 1955. They were based in the Pacific Ocean coastal town of Ventura, California, and also in the neighboring well-known resort town of Santa Barbara, California. They played their home games at Laguna Park and Babe Ruth Field (named for famous baseball player George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, (1895-1948) of Baltimore) in Seaside Park. Their team name reflected the off-shore oil well drilling industry in the Santa Barbara Channel that began in the 1950s and was curtailed by a catastrophic oil spill in 1969.
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Timiskaming Professional Hockey League The Timiskaming Professional Hockey League (TPHL) was a minor professional ice hockey league based in the area of Lake Timiskaming, Canada. Founded in 1906, the league is notable for providing teams and Ambrose O'Brien, the founder of the National Hockey Association, which became today's National Hockey League.
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Betty Whiting Elizabeth Jane Whiting (November 13, 1925 – February 10, 1967) was a utility who played from 1944 through 1952 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft , 147 lb., Whiting batted and threw right-handed. She was born in Ida, Michigan.
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Agnes Allen Agnes Lorraine "Aggie" Allen (September 21, 1930 – February 24, 2012) was a pitcher and outfielder who played from 1950 through 1953 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft , 120 lb, she batted and threw right-handed.
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Twila Shively Twila Shively [″Twi″] (March 20, 1920 – November 25, 1999) was an American competitive baseball player. An outfielder, she played from 1945 through 1950 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft , 128 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.
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Indianapolis Clowns The Indianapolis Clowns were a professional baseball team in the Negro American League. Tracing their origins back to the 1930s, the Clowns were the last of the Negro League teams to disband, continuing to play exhibition games into the 1980s. They began play as the independent Ethiopian Clowns, joined the Negro American League as the Cincinnati Clowns and, after a couple of years, relocated to Indianapolis. Hank Aaron was a Clown for a short period, and the Clowns were also one of the first professional baseball teams to hire a female player.
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Softball <nowiki> </nowiki>Softball is a variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. It was invented in 1887 in Chicago, Illinois, United States as an indoor game. It was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground, softball, kitten ball, and because it was also played by women, ladies' baseball. The name "softball" was given to the game in 1926, because the ball used to be soft.
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George Bechtel George A. Bechtel (September 2, 1848 – April 3, 1921?) was an American right fielder and pitcher in professional baseball's early history who became one of the leading players of his era. He played in all five seasons of baseball's first all-professional league, the National Association, and later played in the first season of baseball's first major league, the National League, when the Association folded. He later became the first player in Major League history to be suspended for life for intentionally losing games for money.
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Mary Nesbitt Wisham Mary Nesbitt Wisham (January 1, 1925 – November 17, 2013) was an American baseball pitcher and first basewoman who played from 1943 through 1950 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft , 155 lb., Nesbitt batted and threw left-handed. She was born Marie Crews Nesbitt in Greenville, South Carolina. Before becoming married in 1946 she played under the name of Mary Nesbitt.
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Annastasia Batikis Annastasia Batikis ["Stash"] (March 15, 1927 – March 12, 2016) was a center fielder who played for the Racine Belles of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the season. Listed at 4 ft , 125 lb., she batted and threw left-handed.
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Babe Ruth Field ""Babe Ruth Field"" was a ballpark in Ventura, California, United States, named after the famous baseball player George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, (1895-1948), of Baltimore, that was used as a minor-league park from 1948 to 1955. Tenant franchises (all of the old California League) included the Ventura Yankees, (1947-1949), the Ventura Braves, (1950-1952), and the Channel Cities Oilers, (1954-1955).
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1882 St. Louis Brown Stockings season The 1882 St. Louis Brown Stockings season was the first professional baseball season played by the team now known as the St. Louis Cardinals. The team was founded in the earlier St. Louis Brown Stockings franchise. It played in the National Association league in 1875 and in the National League from 1876 to 1877. After a scandal over game-fixing, combined with financial problems, the St Louis Brown Stockings left the National league but continued to play as an independent team from 1878 to 1881. Chris von der Ahe, a German immigrant, purchased the team prior to the 1882 season and placed it in the new American Association league. The St. Louis Brown Stockings posted a 37 from 43 game record in their first season in the American Association league, giving them fifth place. The team played at the Grand Avenue Grounds (which was later renamed Sportsman's Park) at the corner of Grand Avenue and Dodier Street in north St. Louis.
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Rita Briggs Rita Briggs "[Maud]" (March 27, 1929 – September 6, 1994) was an American female baseball catcher who played from through for seven different teams in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft , 120 lb., Briggs batted left-handed and threw right-handed. She was born in Ayer, Massachusetts.
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Dorothy Healy (baseball) Dorothy Healy was an outfielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
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Edna Dummerth Edna Dummerth (born Edna Frank, June 15, 1924) played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1944. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri and known by her nickname "Frankie".
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Arlene Kotil Arlene Kotil (born May 22, 1934) is a former infielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She batted and threw left-handed.
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Rosemary Stevenson Rosemary Stevenson (June 2, 1936 – January 3, 2017) was an American outfielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in its final season of operation (1954). She batted left handed and threw right handed.
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Maddy English Madeline Katherine English "[Maddy]" (February 22, 1925 – August 21, 2004) was a third basewoman who played from 1943 through 1951 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft , 130 lb., English batted and threw right-handed. At age eighteen, she became one of the youngest founding member of the league.