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Chicago Colleens and Springfield Sallies photograph

circa 1949

National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
Cooperstown, United States

A black-and-white photograph of memebers of the Chicago Colleens and Springfield Sallies, two teams from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball league, posed in front of a bus.. The bus driver, Walt Fidler, is also depicted. The photograph was probably taken in 1949 based on when the players were in the league. The image caption on the reverse identifies the players as follows. In the bus (l to r) Arlene Kotil, Jo Sindelar, Norene Arnold (partially concealed), Lois Bellman, Barbara Berger, Sue Kidd, Anna O'Dowd, Betty Francis, Toni Palermo, Barbara Payne, and Walt Fidler, bus driver. Standing: Shirley Danz, Gertrude Alderfer, Lillian Shadic, Frances Janssen, Helen Walulik, Mary Baumgartner, Islabel Alvarez, Pat Barringer, Norma Whitney. Donated by Renae Youngberg.

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  • Title: Chicago Colleens and Springfield Sallies photograph
  • Date Created: circa 1949
  • Subject Keywords: Kotil, Arlene, 1934-, Sindelar, Joan, 1931-2003, Arnold, Norene, 1927-1987, Balchunas, Lois (Bellman), 1926-2015, Liebrich, Barbara, 1922-2006, Brown, Barbara (Berger), 1930-2016, Kidd, Glenna Sue, 1933-2017, O'Dowd, Anna Mae, 1929-, Francis, Betty, 1931-2016, Palermo, Toni, Payne, Barbara, 1932-, Danz, Shirley, 1926-, Benner, Gertrude (Alderfer), 1931-, Campbell, Lillian (Shadic), 1929-, Janssen, Frances, 1926-2008, Kiely, Helen (Walulik), 1929-2012, Baumgartner, Mary, 1930-, Alvarez, Isabel, 1933-, Barringer, Patricia, 1924-2007, Dearfield, Norma (Whitney), 1928-, Fidler, Walt, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
  • External Link: https://collection.baseballhall.org/PASTIME/all-american-girls-professional-baseball-league-all-stars-bus-photograph-1949-0
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