In celebration of Women’s History Month, Ohio-based vintage-inspired apparel company Homage has just released a brand new line of t-shirts “that pay homage” to the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The AAGPBL, arguably the most famous professional women’s baseball league thanks in part to the 1992 film A League of
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Fort Wayne TinCaps support AAGPBL monument with Daisies jerseys
The High-A Fort Wayne TinCaps are using a promotional night to raise funds to support a monument to the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). The TinCaps will play Saturday, May 21, as the Fort Wayne Daisies, a women’s professional team that played from 1945 to 1954. Jerseys are being
Art-Forms: Preserving the Visual Legacy of Women in Baseball
If sorting through stacks of vintage programs and pouring over their hand-lettered advertisements floats your root beer, then the work of Anika Orrock will absolutely blow your mind. Orrock’s aesthetic harkens back to a golden age of youth, one where you sat at the breakfast table next to your father.
AAGPBL Still Celebrating Women in Sports Nearly 80 Years Later
Seventy-six years ago, a chewing gum magnate and Major League Baseball owner by the name of Phillip K. Wrigley had a crazy notion, to have women play professional baseball. The world was at war, and with millions of North American men, including some of baseball’s biggest stars having been deployed