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
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