Ruth Elizabeth Lessing was a catcher in what women's professional baseball league that was founded by Philip K. Wrigley, and existed from 1943 to 1954?
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Ruth Lessing Ruth Elizabeth Lessing ["Tex"] (August 15, 1925 – October 26, 2000) was a female catcher who played from 1944 through 1949 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft , 128 lb., 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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Dorothy Naum Dorothy Mary Naum Parker (January 5, 1928 – September 23, 2008) was a catcher, infielder and pitcher who played from 1946 through 1953 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft , 112 lb, she batted and threw right-handed.
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Lucille Colacito Lucille Colacito [Appugliese] (December 27, 1921 – January 30, 1998) was a catcher who played from 1944 through 1945 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft , 120 lb, she batted and threw right-handed.
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Chuck Kress Charles Steven "Chuck" Kress (December 9, 1921 – March 4, 2014) was an American professional baseball first baseman. He played seven seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1947 to 1954 for the Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, and Brooklyn Dodgers. He served in the U.S. Army for three years during World War II (1943–1945).
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1943 Chicago Cubs season The 1943 Chicago Cubs season was the 72nd season of the Chicago Cubs franchise, the 68th in the National League and the 28th at Wrigley Field. The Cubs finished fifth in the National League with a record of 74–79.
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History of the St. Louis Cardinals (1953–89) The St. Louis Cardinals, a professional baseball franchise based in St. Louis, Missouri, compete in the National League (NL) of Major League Baseball (MLB). In 1953, the Anheuser-Busch (AB) brewery bought the Cardinals, and August "Gussie" Busch became team president. Busch's influence is still seen today as three of the Cardinals' home stadia are or were named some form of Busch Stadium. Three World Series titles in the 1960s and 1980s, contrasted with missing the playoffs for the entirety of the 1950s and 1970s checkered the team's success distinctly by decades. However, the team still remained generally competitive in each of those decades - they did not see a last place finish until 1990, which had been the first since 1918. With Busch's tenure as owner, the Cardinals also won six NL pennants.
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Carolyn Morris Carolyn E. Morris (September 28, 1925 – February 20, 1996) was a female pitcher who played from 1944 through 1946 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft , 157 lb., Morris batted and threw right-handed. She was knicknamed "India" by her teammates and close friends.
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Western League (1885–1899) The Western League of Professional Baseball Clubs, also called the Western League, was a minor league baseball league founded on February 11, 1885, and focused in the Midwestern United States.
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Peoria Redwings The Peoria Redwings were a women's professional baseball team who joined the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1946 season. The team represented Peoria, Illinois.
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North American Women's Baseball League The North American Women's Baseball League (NAWBL) is an amateur league based around Boston, Massachusetts. (The official title includes "Northeast Division," but there are no other divisions.) The NAWBL plays games scheduled for seven innings, using NCAA rules, including base-stealing and taking leads off bases. Lineup rules allow liberal substitutions and unlimited re-entry into games, and all players must get some playing time in each game. The season runs from June through August. Robin Wallace is the organizer and Executive Director, and Al Melanson is the Commissioner.
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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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1947 Major League Baseball All-Star Game The 1947 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 14th playing of the "Midsummer Classic" between Major League Baseball's (MLB) American League (AL) and National League (NL) All-Star teams. The All-Star Game was held on July 8, 1947, at Wrigley Field in Chicago, the home of the NL's Chicago Cubs.
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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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Muskegon Belles The Muskegon Belles were a women's professional baseball team that played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1953 season.
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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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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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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.
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Agnes Zurowski Agnes "Aggie" Zurowski (February 21, 1920 – June 25, 2013) was a pitcher for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) in 1945. She both threw and batted right-handed.
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Boston Red Sox The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. The Red Sox have won eight World Series championships and have played in twelve. Founded in 1901 as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox' home ballpark has been Fenway Park since 1912 . The "Red Sox" name was chosen by the team owner, John I. Taylor, around 1908 , following the lead of previous teams that had been known as the "Boston Red Stockings", including the forerunner of the Atlanta Braves.
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Zeke Wrigley George Watson Wrigley (January 18, 1874 in Philadelphia – September 28, 1952), was a former professional baseball player. He played all or part of four seasons in Major League Baseball, from 1896 to 1899, primarily as a shortstop.
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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.