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This article was originally published in SABR’s The National Pastime, No. 2 (1983). Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century. — Mark Twain . . . social inequality … means that in all the relations that […]

Probably almost everyone has heard of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) thanks to the movie A League of Their Own. Of course, the film did not deal with other professional leagues or an international girls’ baseball league. The idea for an international league was first proposed by Arthur Meyerhoff, a Philip K. Wrigley […]

A photocopy of a black-and-white, full-length photograph of Chuck Cottier (foreground) swinging a baseball bat in a barn at Joy Farm. Cottier is twisting to his left and is facing the camera as he swings. Standing behind him watching are Felix Mantilla (left) and Henry Aaron (right). Behind them are stacked hay bales. All three […]

A slide of a black-and-white, full-length photograph of Chuck Cottier (foreground) swinging a baseball bat in a barn at Joy Farm. Cottier is twisting to his left and is facing the camera as he swings. Standing behind him watching are Felix Mantilla (left) and Henry Aaron (right). Behind them are stacked hay bales. All three […]

A slide of a black-and-white, full-length photograph of Chuck Cottier (foreground) swinging a baseball bat in a barn at Joy Farm. Cottier is twisting to his left and is facing the camera as he swings. Standing behind him watching are Felix Mantilla (left) and Henry Aaron (right). Behind them are stacked hay bales. All three […]

A slide of a black-and-white, full-length photograph of Chuck Cottier (foreground) swinging a baseball bat in a barn at Joy Farm. Cottier is twisting to his left and is facing the camera as he swings. Standing behind him watching are Felix Mantilla (left) and Henry Aaron (right). Behind them are stacked hay bales. All three […]