Before there was the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, Mary Anderson was a women’s baseball pioneer. She died recently at the age of 100:
Growing up across from Comiskey Park, home to the Chicago White Sox, Mary Julia Orban was bound to develop a love for baseball. But she also had athletic skills, along with other neighborhood girls, which soon became all too apparent to the neighborhood boys.
“The story we were told was that the boys all dropped out because the girls were too good for them,” said her daughter, Julia Abel. The story must have been true, because the girls’ team (they called themselves the Rinky Dinks) was invited to play in a tournament at the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago.
The teens were victorious, beating a team from Indiana 39-9. Mary Julia played third base and occasionally left field.
She went on to become a lifelong baseball fan, which is saying something: She died on Feb. 25 at the age of 100.
The Twins set up an exhibit honoring her.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2ph8xCk
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