Rosie the Riveter, 1943, Junior Scholastic
Katherine Switzer/ Boston Marathon, 1967, THE UNDEFEATED
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was formed in 1943. The four original teams were the Rockford Peaches, Kenosha Comets, Racine Bells, and South Bend Blue Sox. Eventually eleven more teams were added to the league. Their schedule was rough. They played 115 games from May to September. They played double headers on Sundays, and played night games. Some teams traveled across the country to play a series of games.
Sophie Kurys , 1943, SBNATION
There was a line between women and men in athletics before the 1940’s. Men were given the opportunity to play professional sports and were given more rights. Women on the other hand were not treated equal until the league was formed. "Women during the 1940s were very much expected to stay at home and become wives and mothers. It isn’t until men start to enlist in the military during WWII that this starts to change. Women are being allowed in the work force, mostly because the able-bodied men are all off fighting," said Cassidy Lent, a worker at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
A Strawberry, 1945, Up to the Plate
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