Racine Belles and all the rest was memorialized by director Penny Marshall in the popular 1992 film A League of Their Own. Hired to coach in the All-American Girls Baseball League of 1943 ...

Many Americans see baseball as a sport for men and softball as a sport for women. It wasn’t always this way in the US – and ...

Doris Sams was a successful multi-sport athlete in Knoxville before she joined the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1946.

As Tom Hanks famously said, “There’s no crying in baseball!,” in his role as manager of the Rockford Peaches in the 1992 movie “A League of Their Own.” “It’s tough watching somebody cry out on the ...