“There’s no crying in baseball!” But between 1943 and 1954, when the WWII draft depleted men’s minor league teams, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) stepped up to the plate. This historic league, immortalized in A League of Their Own, paved the way for women in baseball.

One of those trailblazers was Sue Zipay, Cooperstown Hall of Famer and AAGPBL alum. “I had four brothers, and I could play as well as they could,” Sue recalls. “It never occurred to me that I could play baseball…until I got a contract in the mail to go and play for the Rockford Peaches.”

Sue’s experience in the league inspired her to champion American Girls Baseball (AGB), an organization dedicated to developing, managing, and promoting baseball opportunities for girls and women.

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