Baseball is back, and so is the annual Trailblazer Series, Major League Baseball’s initiative to foster youth girls’ baseball ...

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League—founded 75 years ago, on May 30, during the manpower shortage of World War II by Chicago Cubs owner Philip Wrigley—allowed women like Jochum ...

Many Americans see baseball as a sport for men and softball as a sport for women. It wasn’t always this way in the US – and it isn’t that way in the rest of the world.

It’s been some 70 years since we’ve had an all-female pro baseball league. RememberA League of Their Own, starring Madonna, Geena Davis, Rosie O’Donnell, and Tom Hanks? That most beloved, fun movie ...

By age 19, Sams was playing on the Muskegon Lassies in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Sams was Player of the Year in 1947 and 1949 and set a league home run record in 1952.

Tom Hanks stars as Jimmy Dugan, a washed-up ballplayer whose big league days are over. Hired to coach in the All-American Girls Baseball League of 1943, while the male pros are at war, Dugan finds ...

The pitcher graduated from Knoxville High School in 1945 and in 1946, at 19, joined the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League's Muskegon, Michigan. team, the Muskegon Lassies.

Ullstein Bild/Getty Images The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, founded by Philip K. Wrigley in 1943, also offered women the chance to play professionally. The league, which ...