All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: Difference between revisions

Scouts for the Chicago-based All-American Girls Professional Baseball League initially sought and recruited talent from the Chicago softball Metropolitan League, along with several others. However, after seeing many of their players leave for the AAGPBL, it was decided to then turn the amateur Metropolitan League to a professional league. The result was the creation of the six-team [[National Girls Baseball League]], which began in 1944, composed entirely of Chicago-area teams. The National Girls baseball League was founded by Emery Parichy, [[Charles Bidwill]] (owner of the [[Chicago Cardinals]] football team) and politician Ed Kolski. Pirachy operated the Metropolitan League. Football star [[Red Grange]] was hired to preside over the league. The NGBL was much less publicized than the AAGPBL, but it paralleled the AAGPBL, as it also lasted until 1954 and drew up to 500,000 fans per season. For a time, the two leagues were involved in a strong rivalry for players, before meeting and agreeing to a [[poaching]] truce in 1946. Many players and several managers appeared in both leagues.<ref name="sabr.org">{{Cite web |url=https://sabr.org/journal/article/the-international-girls-baseball-league/|title=The International Girls Baseball League |website=Society for American Baseball Research}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/softballnationalnews/past-present/national-girls-baseball-league-1944---1954|title=National Girls Baseball League|website=Softball National News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nationalgirlsbaseballleague.com/about|title=Their Turn at Bat: The Story of the National Girls Baseball League|website=National Girls Baseball League}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://chicago.suntimes.com/2017/4/10/18373414/national-girls-baseball-league-s-kotch-kowell-dead-at-91|title=National Girls Baseball League's 'Kotch' Kowell dead at 91|first=Maureen|last=O'Donnell|date=April 10, 2017|website=Chicago Sun-Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-01-11-9201030815-story.html|title=Obituary: Girls Baseball League Founder Emery A. Parichy |first=Jerry|last=Crimmins |date=1992-11-01 |newspaper=Chicago Tribune}}</ref>

 

 

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