Six teams in the AAGPBL in 1953 1953 Playoffs: Best of 3 Game Series 1st Place - Fort Wayne Daises played the 3rd Place Kalamazoo Lassies 2nd Place Grand Rapids Chicks played the 4th Place Rockford Peaches 1953 Championship Series: Grand Rapids manager Woody English guided the team to two straight wins over the Kalamazoo Lassies as the Chicks hoisted the Women’s Championship Crown. =============================================== Living in a small farming village in Oklahoma - Earlene Risinger recalled later 'After graduation from high school in 1945 here I was with no future. We never even thought about going to college, because there was no money for college. We were so poor we couldn't afford the newspaper. But one day in the spring of 1947, I was reading the day old sports page at the country store... that day I read about a traveling All American Girls baseball team going to play in Oklahoma City on the way back north from spring training. I never dreamed such a league existed. I dropped a postcard to the sports editor, and he sent my card to the lerague's headquarters in Chicago. Pretty soon I got a letter asking me to come to Oklahoma City for a try-out.' Beans Risinger played six seasons in the AAGBL 1948-1953. =============================================== Please check out www.wintersweet.org a non-profit charitable organization which helpes orphaned children across the world. Our editor, Joe Balazs designed and maintains their web-site free of charge and he also does www.baseballhistorian.com www.footballhistorian.com www.boxinghistorian.com and www.basketballhistorian.com
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