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All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
According to the player manual, "When you become a player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, you have reached the highest position that a girl can attain in this sport." The distinctive uniforms, designed to emphasize femininity, were problematic -- players accumulated "strawberries on top of strawberries," painful abrasions from bare-legged sliding. Infielder Dorothy "Dot" Ferguson, who wore this uniform as a Rockford Peach, was a constant threat on the base paths, with 461 stolen bases over her ten-year career. |