Grand Rapids Chicks Team photograph

Date1945

DescriptionA black-and-white photograph of the 1945 Grand Rapids Chicks. The players, along with the manager and chaperone, are arranged in two rows in front of the stands - one sitting in chairs (Viola Thompson Griffin, Sylvia Wronski Straka, Thelma "Tiby" Eisen, Ernestine "Teeny" Petras, Philomena Gianfrancisco, Elizabeth Berthiaume Wicken, Alma Ziegler, Dorothy Maguire) and one standing (Marge Wenzell, Doris Tetzlaff, Betty Whiting, Jo Kabick, manager Benny Meyer, chaperone Dottie Hunter, Connie Wisniewski, Catherine "Kay" Blumetta, Twila "Twi" Shively, Joyce Hill Westerman).

Object numberBL-1998-03272-092

Subject Ziegler, Alma, 1918-2005

Subject Kabick, Jo, 1922-1978

Subject Hunter, Dottie, 1916-2005

Subject Wisniewski, Connie, 1922-1995

Subject Blumetta, Kay, 1923-1997

Subject Westerman, Joyce

Subject Grand Rapids Chicks (Baseball team)

Subject All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

Attributes

Classificationsphotographic materials

Collection NumberBA PHT 084 Connie Wisniewski photographic material

Dimensions9.5 x 7.5 in.

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