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Women’s Baseball League By Sarah

America was in the middle of World War II and so many of Americas loved ones were dying. The reason baseball ended was because most of the professional baseball players had to give up their careers to go to war to help save America. In 1942, Philip K. Wrigley and President Roosevelt came up with the idea to replace baseball with the first women’s baseball league. The reason women’s baseball got so popular was because men’s baseball was over and there were no more sports to watch besides women’s baseball.

A lot of people were saying that girls could not play baseball because girls should act like ladies. To prove that they could still be like proper ladies, they went to charm school. All the girls that were going to play baseball still learned how to sit like ladies, walk like ladies, speak like ladies, and dress like ladies.

Some of the first women’s teams where the Racine Belles, the Rockford Peaches, the Kenosha Comets, and the South Bend Blue Sox. After the war ended everyone who played women’s baseball started to struggle because men’s professional baseball came back and everyone wanted to watch that instead of women’s baseball. By 1954, women’s baseball became a thing of the past.

Your bibliography Gourley, Catherine. __Welcome to Molly's world, 1944 growing up in World War Two America__. Middleton, WI: Pleasant Co. Publications, 1999.