The 21st Show

Will Rockford Build A Women’s Baseball Museum?

Produced by Erica Scalise
 
Four pitchers on the 1943 Rockford Peaches warming up.

Four pitchers on the 1943 Rockford Peaches warming up. National Baseball Hall of Fame

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Rockford will forever be associated with women’s baseball through the 1992 movie “A League of Their Own.” The film presented a fictionalized version of the real-life, World War II era Rockford Peaches. Now there’s a push to cement that relationship with a museum dedicated to women’s baseball, but another group is fighting the placement of the museum. We were joined to talk about it by the president of the International Women's Baseball Center and a former player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. 

Maybelle Blair, a former All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player, helped found the International Women's Baseball Center.

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Kat Williams 

President of the International Women's Baseball Center and history professor who studies women’s sports at Marshall University

Maybelle Blair

Partial International Women's Baseball Center founder and former player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

 

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