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Sue Parsons Zipay's Baseball Life Sue Parsons Zipay of Englewood played for the Rockford Peaches in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and appeared in the movie, "A League of Their Own." Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Sue Parsons Zipay's Baseball Life
Mar 6, 2024
Sue Zipay takes the stage on Suncoast View Don't miss this exciting conversation highlighting the Second Annual All-American Women’s Baseball Classic and the impact they're making. Sue Zipay's insights and experiences are sure to inspire and empower!

Sue Zipay takes the stage on Suncoast View
Mar 6, 2024
Diamond Girls: All-American Girls Baseball Classic The 2nd annual All-American Girls Baseball Classic went down this past week in Sarasota. Women from all over the country and world came to play baseball in this great tournament. This video shows some of the game footage and goes a little into the history of women’s baseball. I hope you enjoy and if you’d like to help support the league, please go to: https://americangirlsbaseball.org https://www.instagram.com/americangirlsbaseball/ Thank You! #agb #aagpbl #womensbaseball #baseball #rockfordpeaches #southbendbluesox #kenoshacomets #racinebelles #aleagueoftheirown #mamiepeanutjohnson #tonistone #conniemorgan #negroleagues

Diamond Girls: All-American Girls Baseball Classic
Mar 11, 2024
All-American Women's Classic Highlight Reel Tournament Features Elite Female Baseball Players as the Original All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Passes the Torch to A New Generation of Female Athletes ABOUT AMERICAN GIRLS BASEBALL American Girls Baseball was created as an affiliate organization of the AAGPBL in 2019 to continue the legacy and purpose of this prestigious woman’s professional league. AGB’s mission is to develop, manage, market, and promote training and instructional programs for girls and women in the game of baseball, all the while providing opportunities for competitive play and fair compensation in sport. For more information, go to americangirlsbaseball.org.

All-American Women's Classic Highlight Reel
Mar 6, 2024
Billie Jean King wants you to Help support WOMEN'S BASEBALL! All-American Women’s Baseball Bash was held on Sunday, Nov. 20, at the Hyatt Regency, Sarasota, FL.

Billie Jean King wants you to Help support WOMEN'S BASEBALL!
Mar 6, 2024
Hitting practice at American Girls Baseball The purpose of the organization is “to develop, manage, market, and promote training and instructional programs for girls and women in the game of baseball, and in connection therewith, to provide opportunities for competitive play and compensation in the sport.” – Sue Zipay, Founder

Hitting practice at American Girls Baseball
Mar 6, 2024
How We Learned to Play Ball Even today, girls rarely learn to play baseball, and in the mid-20th century, girls sports were nowhere near as widely encouraged as they are today. The League's players learned from their fathers, brothers and kids in the neighborhood, and in some areas could participate in softball in school or in leagues run by churches or businesses. However they learned, they all developed a passion for the game that shows through in the stories they share about their experiences.

How We Learned to Play Ball
Mar 6, 2024
Finding the Players and Joining the League It was one thing for Chicago Cubs owner Philip K. Wrigley to decide to form a women's baseball league in 1943, but entirely another to find women to play in it. This video lays out the wide range of methods the league used to find players, and includes the players' own stories of how they learned about the league and what they had to do to join it.

Finding the Players and Joining the League
Mar 6, 2024
Charm School As part of League founder Philip K. Wrigley's campaign to prove to the public that women could be professional athletes without sacrificing their femininity, the League in its first year set up a charm school for the players. The curriculum included things like hair care, using makeup properly, and various aspects of etiquette and posture, as well as rules of conduct for the players. The school itself was discontinued in later years, but the rules remained, and here the players share their memories of both.

Charm School
Mar 6, 2024
Spring Training in Cuba In 1947, the year in which Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball, his team, the Brooklyn Dodgers, held their spring training in Cuba in order to avoid the problems they might encounter in the American South, which was still segregated. The leadership of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League decided to follow suit, and brought all of their players there for their own spring training. The players' stories about that trip show that it was a great success, and even helped them to recruit Cuban players, despite a certain amount of culture shock, whether from the food or from the enthusiastic attention of Cuban fans.

Spring Training in Cuba
Mar 6, 2024
Great Plays, Great Players Here the players share their stories about their most memorable on-field experiences. For some, there was a single moment that stood out. Others, several of whom had long careers in the league, explain what made them so successful. Some of the players had records that would have qualified them for the Hall of Fame if they were men, including Sophie Kurys, who stole 205 bases in a single season, and Jean Faut, who pitched multiple perfect games and no-hitters.

Great Plays, Great Players
Mar 6, 2024
Team Travel The teams in the League were scattered about much of the Midwest, and road trips were very much part of the life of the players. Initially, they traveled by train, but soon buses became standard, and the long bus rides stand out in many of the players' memories. For several years, the League also had two traveling teams, the Chicago Colleens and Springfield Sallies, that served as training teams for prospective players. They toured across much of the country in the same bus, and played each other in exhibition games, sometimes recruiting new players along the way.

Team Travel
Mar 6, 2024
The Uniform--Oh, Those Skirts! One of the more striking aspects of the League was that its players played in skirts. The skirts were intended to help show the public that the players retained their femininity, and certainly caught people's attention, but were not exactly practical. This video tells the story of how the uniforms were designed and modified over time, as well as they players' own views of having to wear them, especially of having to slide on bare legs, which often had painful consequences.

The Uniform--Oh, Those Skirts!
Mar 6, 2024
After Baseball: Then What? The All American Girls Professional Baseball League operated from 1943 through 1954. Players came and went during those years, some choosing to leave before 1954 for reasons of their own, and others staying until the end. Once their baseball careers ended, they found other things to do. Many of them took the money they earned playing ball and used it to pay for college and went on to careers in business, education and other fields, while others married and had children. Many put their baseball careers behind them and rarely talked about them until the release of the Penny Marshall Film "A League of Their Own" in 1993 turned them into instant celebrities.

After Baseball: Then What?
Mar 6, 2024
Allington's All Stars After the League folded in 1954, one of their managers, Bill Allington, recruited a group of players who wanted to keep playing, and created a team called Allington's All Stars. They were a barnstorming team, traveling from town to town across the country playing anyone willing to play them often men's teams. This video tells there story, and includes color film footage from some of their games.

Allington's All Stars
Mar 6, 2024
What the League Meant to Me Former players in the All American Girls Professional Baseball League share their views of the League and how being a part of it affected their lives.

What the League Meant to Me
Mar 6, 2024
Delores Lee Delores "Pickles" Lee played in the All American Girls Professional Baseball League. She was a pitcher, and known for her ability to throw multiple balls with one hand. After the league folded in 1954, she joined a touring team, Allington's All Stars, made up of women who had played in the league and were not ready to quit.

Delores Lee
Mar 6, 2024
Anna Kimbrell, USA Women's Baseball Player/Instructor, Joins the Alan Alford Sports Talk Show!!! Thank you, Women's USA Baseball, American Girls Baseball, Baseball and Softball Instructor, Anna Kimbrell for being our Special Guest on the Alan Alford Sports Talk Show! Anna has a true passion for the game of Baseball and an outstanding Ambassador of the sport! Anna, thanks some important people who have assisted her journey! Including someone who I had the pleasure of interviewing @meggiemdl! Anna also credits both her parents! Thank you, @planeolfun for making this interview possible! I greatly appreciate it! In addition, Anna credits Derek Jeter for being her Male Role Model in her Baseball journey! Truly awesome! Thank you so much Anna! It was truly an honor conducting this interview! I tremendously appreciate it! Many continued Blessing on your Baseball journey! Thank you, Chef G's Florida Barbecue Sauce, Gaston's Culinary Services, Off-Site Catering/Events for being our outstanding Sponsor! Important Links Below: 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 Chef G's Florida BBQ Sauce: https://flbbqsauce.com Alan Alford YouTube Page: https://www.youtube.com/alanalford Alan Alford Sports Talk Show Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/alanalfordsportstalkshow Alan Alford Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/alanalford_ Alan Alford Twitter [X] Page: https://twitter.com/AlanAlford Anna Kimbrell Instagram: https://www.instragram.com/ak9_catching Interview Date & Time: 1/19/24 2:00 PM EST

Anna Kimbrell, USA Women's Baseball Player/Instructor, Joins the Alan Alford Sports Talk Show!!!
Mar 29, 2024
Dr. Toni Palermo – Finding Her Calling After the Game In this episode of “The Journey of My Mother’s Son” podcast, I sit down to talk with Dr. Toni Palermo. Toni was one of the youngest players to play in the AAGPBL. After her playing days, she entered the convent and became Sister Toni. After Toni became a Nun, she went on to earn her Bachelor of Science Degree in English, History and Math from Alverno College. She then earned three Master Degrees and a Doctor of Philosophy Degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She taught in the Physical Education Department and the School of Social Work at the University. We were connected by our mutual friend and fellow supporter of women in baseball, Sandy Kimbrell. Sandy saw that we were in Wisconsin and reached out to me with Toni’s contact information. We conducted the podcast on Toni’s front porch and unfortunately, we had some cicadas in the background, so the sound quality is not the greatest, but nonetheless, Toni has a great story to tell.

Dr. Toni Palermo – Finding Her Calling After the Game
Apr 8, 2024
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