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All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Trivia Quizzes

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1.
  Women On The Run    
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What better example of women on the run than the groundbreaking ladies involved in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League?
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  The Real League of Their Own    
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Most of us were introduced to The All American Girls Professional Baseball League by the 1992 movie "A League Of Their Own". The facts of the league's 12 seasons are just as fascinating as the movie, albeit without Madonna.
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All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Trivia Questions
1. In which year was the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) formed ?

From Quiz Women On The Run

Answer: 1943

Tryouts for the league were held at Wrigley Field Chicago, and women not only had to be skilled ball players, but also had to exhibit wholesome feminine ideals. As per the segregation which existed in the men's game at the time, no African-American ladies were invited to try out. The league was formed by executives from MLB (Major League Baseball) who had concerns that while WWII was ongoing, MLB may not be able to continue due to a lack of players and fuel rationing imposing travel restrictions.

2. During the 12 years the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was in existence, one team managed an impressive four championship wins. Which team was this?

From Quiz Women On The Run

Answer: Rockford Peaches

The Rockford Peaches were a founding member of the league from Rockford, Illinois. They took the title in 1945 and then in three consecutive years, 1948, 1949 and 1950.

3. Which team won the league's first championship in 1943?

From Quiz The Real League of Their Own

Answer: Racine Belles

The Belles bested the Comets in a best-of-five series to clinch the inaugural championship.

4. Who hit an impressive 55 home runs in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League to be the record holder in this category?

From Quiz Women On The Run

Answer: Eleanor Callow

Callow was a Canadian girl from Winnipeg, Manitoba who played for three teams in the league, Peoria Redwings, Chicago Colleens and Rockford Peaches. She was a four time all star and known as the female Babe Ruth.

5. While the AAGPBL was the first professional league composed entirely of women, the players weren't the first women to play baseball in the United States. Who were the first women known to play the national pastime?

From Quiz The Real League of Their Own

Answer: Vassar College

Vassar fielded a team in 1866! Barnstorming teams with female players were fairly common in the early 20th century. At least three women are known to have played in the Negro Leagues (operated from 1920 to 1950).

6. Which team, in 1954 became the final champions of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League?

From Quiz Women On The Run

Answer: Kalamazoo Lassies

The Lassies started in Muskegon, Michigan in 1946, before relocating to Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1950, mid season. In the 1954 Championship title game, the Lassies defeated the Fort Wayne Daisys over the course of five games.

7. Who made history by becoming the first sisters to play in All-American Girls Professional Baseball League?

From Quiz Women On The Run

Answer: Marge and Helen Callaghan

The Callaghan sisters from Vancouver, British Columbia made history in 1944 when both played for the Minneapolis Millerettes, Helen as a center fielder and older sister Marge as an infielder. The Millerettes played for just the 1944 season before relocating to Fort Wayne, Indiana as the Fort Wayne Daisies.

8. On June 10, 1943 Olive Little of the Rockford Peaches became the first AAGPBA player to do what?

From Quiz The Real League of Their Own

Answer: Pitch a no hitter.

It was the first of four no-no's Little threw in her career. She was one of several league stars from Canada and is a member of both the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame. She sat out the 1944 season to have a baby but returned in 1945 to win 22 games. Try that, Roy Halladay!

9. In 1950, who made league history when she became the only woman in AAGPBL history to be player-manager of a team, when she took on the role for the Kalamazoo Lassies?

From Quiz Women On The Run

Answer: Bonnie Baker

Baker, a native of Regina, Saskatchewan was an all star catcher who started her career with South Bend Blue Sox in 1943, where she remained until joining the Lassies in 1950. She was a former model and was often used in promotional material for the league as well as appearing on popular TV show "What's My Line?" in 1952.

10. 1948 was the league's most succesful in terms of attendance. How many fans paid to watch the ten teams play that year?

From Quiz The Real League of Their Own

Answer: 910,000

In 1946 a record 10,000 fans attended a South Bend Blue Sox double header. After 1948, attendance dwindled due largely to ownership issues.

11. In 1995, Joanne Winter who had played for the Racine Belles from 1943 to 1950, won the Ellen Griffin Rolex Award. In which sport is the honour awarded?

From Quiz Women On The Run

Answer: Golf

On her retirement from baseball, Winter became an accomplished golfer, winning the Arizona State Women's Golf championship four times before turning professional on the LPGA tour in 1962, competing in 25 events before a back injury forced her retirement. She took to teaching golf and won LPGA Teacher of the Year in 1969 as well as the aforementioned Ellen Griffin award in 1995, which is given to teachers who teach using the same spirit, love, and dedication to the sport that Griffin herself showed.

12. In 1954 Joanne Weaver did something that hasn't been done in the major leagues since Ted Williams accomplished the feat in 1941. What did she do?

From Quiz The Real League of Their Own

Answer: Hit over .400.

Joanne "Joltin' Jo" Weaver was one of three sisters who played for the Fort Wayne Daisies during the final years of the AAGPBL. She won the batting championship in the league's final three years surpassing her sister Betty who won the title in the two previous seasons. Weaver's average of .429 in 1954, the laugue's final season, is the highest average posted by by a professional player since the 19th century.

13. Only two teams played in every season of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. One was Rockford Peaches, but who was the other?

From Quiz Women On The Run

Answer: South Bend Blue Sox

The Blue Sox managed to win the league in 1951 and 1952. Of the other answers, the Chicago Colleens and the Springfield Sallies were both around for just the 1948 season before losing their franchises.

14. What were the ladies of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League required to wear at all times?

From Quiz Women On The Run

Answer: Lipstick

The ladies of the league were schooled in etiquette, personal hygiene and mannerisms and while some things were completely outlawed, such as smoking or drinking alcohol in public, others were enforced, such as girls not being allowed to be seen in public without lipstick. Having short hair was another thing which was not allowed and when Josephine D'Angelo had her hair cut short in 1944, she was released by the South Bend Blue Sox, never to play in the league again. While playing D'Angelo, as a lesbian, also had to take care not to fall foul of the leagues rules on "freaks and Amazons."

15. The first girl to sign a contract with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was Ann Harnett. What else is Harnett remembered for?

From Quiz Women On The Run

Answer: Designing the uniforms

Harnett co designed the league uniforms with artist Otis Shepard, and used ice skating, tennis and field hockey uniforms of the time as a basis for them. The uniforms consisted of satin shorts worn under a one piece tunic with a short flared skirt along with knee high socks and a baseball cap. When she retired from baseball, Chicago native, Harnett became a nun.

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