BTS 22 – Silver Bullets, Sell Out Crowds, and a 10-10 Tie

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

https://unwritten-record.blogs.archives.gov/2014/04/28/this-week-in-universal-news-the-all-american-girl-baseball-league-1951/

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

http://anchoragebucs.com/view/anchoragebucs/our-mission-15/bucs-history-2

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/