Importance

The AAGPBL’s importance is that the AAGPBL is what kept the game of baseball going during World War II (Little). When the league first started in 1943 the AAGPBL kept playing baseball until after World War II (Little). At one point the AAGPBL founder Philip K. Wrigley had lost interest in the AAGPBL (“AAGPBL League History”). Philip K. Wrigley had no interest in making the AAGPBL anymore so he “sold the league to his Chicago advertising executive, Arthur Meyerhoff” (“AAGPBL League History”). During 1944 Arthur Meyerhoff met with representatives from the four original cities and reorganized the league (“AAGPBL League History”). Then by 1954 the AAGPBL had given over 600 women athletes the opportunity to play professional baseball (“AAGPBL League History”).