AAGPBL - Lois Youngen & Sue Zipay - bringing back the "League of Their Own"

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Sue (Parsons) Zipay of Rockford Peaches & Lois Youngens – Fort Wayne Daisies & South Bend Blue Sox share their stories from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

• The “League of their Own based on the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
• 25% Hollywood Hyperbole
• Risqué "League of Their Own"
• Jimmy Foxx, managed the Fort Wayne Daisies in 1952, never missed a game, never drank on the bus, always tipped his hat, a true gentleman
• No Crying in Baseball
• Right Field or Catching – Smarter than the Boys
• 110 games a season – sometimes 7 days a week with a couple of double headers
• AAGPBL pitchers often pitched 9 innings a game and sometimes pitched 2 days back to back
• Sue talks about pitching and 2nd base and how AAGPBL was like a family
• Fans – Daisy Fan Club – provided a picnic for players once a year
• After the game the long ride home & then rise early the next morning for practice
• Young, Healthy & Loved the Game
• Long 1 piece dress uniform made it difficult to catch grounder
• Strawberries from June to Thanksgiving – sliding in feet first
• Madonna slides into first with her Material Girl’s bosom first
• Fort Wayne Daisies tryouts in Spring Training & $20 check
• Senior Prom, Graduation & became a Fort Wayne Daisy all in 1 week
• AAGPBL Scouts & Tryouts
• Serendipity with a visit to a cousin in Fort Wayne
• Dating Farmer Boy fans & have a good cookout
• Dottie Greene former player becomes a scout & chaperone
• Chaperones found host families for lodging at private homes
• Rivalry continues between Lois & Sue
• Shu-Shu Senaida Wirth – Tampa Ybor native with the South Bend Blue Sox
• Canada, Cuba & Japan have professional women’s baseball teams
  • 1948 AAGPBL Spring Training in Cuba
  • Dodgers – dem bums had to fend for themselves in Cuba
  • 4 or 5 Cuban women came on board with the AAGPBL
  • Isabel Alvarez & Mickey Perez pitchers from Cuba
• Jimmie Foxx’s daughter was a Bat Girl for the Fort Wayne
• Lois synergy with Jean Faut the G.O.A.T. had great control most of the time
• Lois traded to South Bend
• Baseball math – field dimensions & ball measurements
• Faut had a good sequence of pitches that gave her the perfect game
• The Weavers - Jean & Jo were 2 of the best batters in the League
• Life after the League – other sports the players performed - Professional bowlers & tennis players
• , Sue now owns & runs Englewood Tennis Club
• “League of Their Own” Penny Marshall & Sue’s knee injury
• Canada is number 1 in Girl’s / Women’s Baseball
• Why is it that there has not been a Professional Women’s Baseball League
• More than half of the USA Team Championship members will be at the tournament.
• Women's Baseball can begin with a new league
• Building a new “League of Their Own” now in Sarasota

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