Women in Baseball - History Baseball A Time

Women in baseball ... In the early 20th century, barnstorming teams known as the Bloomer Girls were formed in some parts of the United States and took amateur and semi-professional teams that both women and men.

It is believed that the first women in baseball as a result of an attempt to take advantage of the new players.

In 1931, Jackie Mitchell signed a contract with the minor league Chattanooga Look Outs. Mitchell serious against the New York Yankees and two stars have players, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig! Since then, in 1952, organized baseball formally banned women from signing contracts with professional teams man. This is still in force today!

Women in baseball were to increase, as the Second World War, many men were sent into combat. This ment that women have had to intervene for the game of baseball life for the return men. When the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) was founded with four teams, the Rockford Peaches, the Racine Belles, Kenosha Comets and the South Bend Blue Sox. The amount of women in baseball up!

Rules to encourage the wearing of lipstick and long hair on women in baseball have been reported. The ban on the wearing of pants off the field.

Initially, women have played fast-pitch softball with a larger balloon and below pitch. In 1948, pitching above was presented, and finally there was not much difference between man and woman AAGPBL baseball baseball organizations. Women baseball developed by women of the basic rules, but with some small changes ... 80 feet between bases, 55 meters before the pitching and only nine players on the field.

The AAGPBL finally folded in 1954, following the spread of Major League Baseball in the 1950s. But the spirit of women baseball was to live as 5 November 1988, the All American Girls Professional Baseball League memories enshrined in the Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York. Over 550 names on a plaque at the exhibition entitled "Women in Baseball".

Currently there are approximately 40 youth baseball teams and women in the United States to play in about nine independent leagues and tournaments throughout the year.