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The History of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League

By deebee

  • Men's minor league baseball teams disband

    Men's minor league baseball teams disband
    Due to many of the young male baseball players enlisting in the army, many of the minor league teams were disbanded

  • Philip Wrigley forms the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

    Philip Wrigley forms the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
    Philip Wrigley was worried that the american people would lose baseball since so many players were leaving for the war. He came up with idea of having women form a baseball league.

  • First spring training was held at Wrigley Field

    First spring training was held at Wrigley Field

  • First Game!

    First Game!
    The first game was played with South Bend playing Rockford and Kenosha playing Racine

  • First Champions

    First Champions
    The Racine Bells won the first Championship game to become the first AAGPBL Champs

  • End of the War

    End of the War
    The AAGPBL celebrated the end of the war at the ball park

  • Peak Attendance

    Peak Attendance
    The AAGPBL hit their peak attendance with 910,000 fans coming to the games

  • The End

    The End
    The AAGPBL ends

  • A Movie brings life to the AAGPBL

    A Movie brings life to the AAGPBL
    The movie A Leaugue of their Own is released and inspires many young girls. It also spreads the history of the AAGPBL to millions of people.