There is a very long history and story behind women in baseball. Women’s baseball started around the 1860s and about 80 years later the first professional women’s baseball league began.
The AAGPBL (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League) began playing in 1943 and has lasted a dozen years. It has given many women an opportunity that has not existed before.
It had become popular by the 1992 film A League of Their Own. The AAGPBL was born when four teams (the Rockford Peaches, the South Bend BLue Sox, the Racine Belles and the Kenosha Comets) played a 108 game schedule.
The league swiftly actualized. The league’s first tryouts were at Chicago in spring of 1943. At the end of WWII and the rise of televised league games (and some other problems) led to the expiry of the AAGPBL
