AAGPBL - Lois Youngen & Sue Zipay - bringing back the "League of Their Own"

Sue (Parsons) Zipay of Rockford Peaches & Lois Youngens –
Fort Wayne Daisies & South Bend Blue Sox share their stories
from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.


The “League of their Own based on the All-American Girls
Professional Baseball League

25% Hollywood Hyperbole

Risqué "League of Their Own"

Jimmy Foxx, managed the Fort Wayne Daisies in 1952, never
missed a game, never drank on the bus, always tipped his hat, a
true gentleman 

No Crying in Baseball

Right Field or Catching – Smarter than the Boys

110 games a season – sometimes 7 days a week with a couple of
double headers

AAGPBL pitchers often pitched 9 innings a game and sometimes
pitched 2 days back to back

Sue talks about pitching and 2nd base and how AAGPBL was like
a family

Fans – Daisy Fan Club – provided a picnic for players once a
year

After the game the long ride home & then rise early the
next morning for practice

Young, Healthy & Loved the Game

Long 1 piece dress uniform made it difficult to catch
grounder

Strawberries from June to Thanksgiving – sliding in feet
first

Madonna slides into first with her Material Girl’s bosom
first 

Fort Wayne Daisies tryouts in Spring Training & $20 check

Senior Prom, Graduation & became a Fort Wayne Daisy all
in 1 week

AAGPBL Scouts & Tryouts

Serendipity with a visit to a cousin in Fort Wayne

Dating Farmer Boy fans & have a good cookout

Dottie Greene former player becomes a scout & chaperone

Chaperones found host families for lodging at private homes

Rivalry continues between Lois & Sue

Shu-Shu Senaida Wirth – Tampa Ybor native with the South Bend
Blue Sox

Canada, Cuba & Japan have professional women’s baseball
teams

1948 AAGPBL Spring Training in Cuba

Dodgers – dem bums had to fend for themselves in Cuba

4 or 5 Cuban women came on board with the AAGPBL

Isabel Alvarez & Mickey Perez pitchers from Cuba



Jimmie Foxx’s daughter was a Bat Girl for the Fort
Wayne 

Lois synergy with Jean Faut the G.O.A.T. had great control
most of the time

Lois traded to South Bend

Baseball math – field dimensions & ball measurements

Faut had a good sequence of pitches that gave her the perfect
game

The Weavers - Jean & Jo were 2 of the best batters in the
League 

Life after the League – other sports the players performed -
Professional bowlers &  tennis players

, Sue now owns & runs Englewood Tennis Club

“League of Their Own” Penny Marshall & Sue’s knee injury

Canada is number 1 in Girl’s / Women’s Baseball

Why is it that there has not been a Professional Women’s
Baseball League

More than half of the USA Team Championship members will be
at the tournament.

Women's Baseball can begin with a new league 

Building a new “League of Their Own” now in Sarasota



All-American Women's Baseball Tournament tickets -
https://bit.ly/45Cbnmx


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