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The state will commit $400,000 to help the International Women’s Baseball Center make improvements to Beyer Stadium.
Maybelle Blair is a gay former women’s professional baseball player featured in Outsports ‘Being Out’ video series. The post ...
The state of Illinois has granted $400,000 to the International Women's Baseball Center to make improvements to the Rockford ...
She was 101. The baseball player is believed to have been the last surviving member of the 1943 Rockford Peaches, the team that was part of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League ...
The renovations aim to bring professional women's baseball back to the stadium, the former home of the Rockford Peaches. The International Women's Baseball Center is leading the project ...
Rockford's Beyer Stadium will see $400,000 in state funds to help the International Women’s Baseball Center make the ...
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The Norwood native played 10 seasons for the Rockford Peaches in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1940s and ’50s. A seven-time All-Star, she won two batting titles and ...
What’s so wrong with effort anyway? It means you care.” As Rockford Peaches Coach Jimmy Dugan says in one of my favorite movies, “A League of Their Own:” “If it wasn’t hard ...
The show’s pilot episode, introducing the World War II-era Rockford, Ill., women’s baseball team, the Peaches, was shot in Southern California pre-pandemic. When the show, inspired by the 1992 ...