What likely springs to mind when one thinks of women's baseball is the 1992 movie, "A League of their Own," starring Tom Hanks and Geena Davis. Yet the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was neither the beginning nor the end of women's baseball. On this episode we'll explore women's baseball in the city of Anchorage.
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Resources Used to Make This Episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGORpNnGAcE
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http://www.historygrandrapids.org/audio/2449/grand-rapids-chicks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Rapids_(baseball)
https://www.aagpbl.org/seasons
https://www.aagpbl.org/history/league-history
http://www.coloradosilverbullets.org/
BULLETS GET SHOT AT BUCS - ALL-WOMEN'S TEAM TO VISIT ANCHORAGE, by Beath Bragg. Anchorage Daily News. May 30, 1997. Page C1 - https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/news/0F794144C07D3493?search_terms=colorado%2Bsilver%2Bbullets&text=colorado%20silver%20bullets&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=ADNB&sort=old&pdate=1997-05-30
SILVER BULLETS GROW WEARY OF THE LABELS, by Van Willaims. Anchorage Daily News. June 25, 1997. Page C1. https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/news/0F793F52759013D9?search_terms=colorado%2Bsilver%2Bbullets&text=colorado%20silver%20bullets&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=ADNB&sort=old&pdate=1997-06-25
6,525 FANS WATCH BUCS SHUT OUT SILVER BULLETS, by Staff. Anchorage Daily News, June 26, 1997, page B3 - https://adn.newsbank.com/doc/news/0F793EB7B84602DF?search_terms=colorado%2Bsilver%2Bbullets&text=colorado%20silver%20bullets&content_added=&date_from=&date_to=&pub%255B0%255D=ADNB&sort=old&pdate=1997-06-26
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https://vilda.alaska.edu/digital/collection/cdmg2/id/325/rec/10
https://vilda.alaska.edu/digital/collection/cdmg2/id/131/rec/13
https://vilda.alaska.edu/digital/collection/cdmg2/id/353/rec/14
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=803978487963131&set=a.583088483385467
ANCHORAGE AND KINK OBSERVE THE NATAL DAY – by Staff, Cook Inlet Pioneer and Kink News, July 10, 1915 -
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/2019271003/1915-07-10/ed-1/seq-6/
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