All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Players at Pre-Season Training photograph

Date1944

DescriptionA black-and-white photograph of various All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players listening to manager Max Carey during pre-season training in 1944. Max Carey is crouched down with a baseball bat leaning on his leg and is throwing a ball to one of the players. The players come from various teams including the Kenosha Comets, the Rockford Peaches, and the South Bend Blue Sox and are arranged in two rows - one kneeling (Max Carey, unidentified, unidentified, Connie Wisniewski, unidentified, Elizabeth "Lib" Mahon) and one standing (unidentified, unidentified, Dorothy "Dottie" Wiltse Collins, Lavonne "Pepper" Paire Davis, Alma Ziegler, Viola Thompson Griffin, Josephine "Jo" Kabick, Thelma Eisen, Mildred "Millie" Deegan).

Object numberBL-1998-03272-215

Subject All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

Subject Deegan, Millie, 1919-2002

Subject Carey, Max, 1890-1976

Subject Wisniewski, Connie, 1922-1995

Subject Collins, Dottie Wiltse, 1923-2008

Subject Davis, Pepper Paire, 1924-2013

Subject Ziegler, Alma, 1918-2005

Subject Kabick, Jo, 1922-1978

Subject South Bend Blue Sox (Baseball team)

Subject Kenosha Comets (Baseball team)

Subject Rockford Peaches (Baseball team)

Attributes

Classificationsphotographic materials

Collection NumberBA PHT 084 Connie Wisniewski photographic materials

Dimensions10 x 8 in.

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