Source: Rockford Register Star, Aug. 23, 2020.
All American Girls Professional Baseball League
Rockford Peaches 75th Anniversary Celebration – May and June 2018
Source: The Market Street Press, May 2018, Vol. 7, Issue 7, page 10
www.internationalwomensbaseballcenter.org/events
www.illinois200.com
Rockford Peaches – from 4-7-2018 Rockford Register Star
Source: Rockford Register Star 4/7/2018; by Adam Poulisse
Rockford Magazine – December 1994. Table of Contents
Source: Rockford Magazine, December 1994, Vol. 9, No. 12; Cover artwork by Kyle Warner
Beyer Stadium
Source: Sinnissippi Saga 977.33 N31 page 450
Nebraska Zepher, Silver Pilot – 2011
Source: Brian Landis donation
Nebraska Zephyr Silver Pilot, aka Silver Streak. The train was in Rockford 7-19-2011, while going from the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, IL to the Train Festival in 2011, in the Quad Cities.
This train was used in the movie “A League of Their Own” about the Rockford Peaches, an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League team in WWII – 1950’s, in Rockford, IL.
Rockford Peaches – sepia photograph
Source: Sesquicentennial Calendar
“The dugout of the Rockford Peaches at Beyer Stadium. Charter members of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the Peaches (1943-1954) won four of the League’s twelve championships, more than any other team.” Photo courtesy of Midway Village and Museum Center.
Rockford Starfire
Source: Rock River Times Sept. 4 – 10. 2013 Vol. 20, No. 46
“Kammie on First” – Rockford Peaches
author Michelle Houts, wrote a book about Rockford Peaches’ baseball player Dorothy “Dottie” Kamenshek, who played with the Peaches 1943-1953.
Review on book by Kara Anderson in Rockford Register Star 11-16-2014
Rockford Peaches – uniform design
The All American Girls Professional Baseball League uniforms were designed by Mrs. Philip Wrigley, whose husband owned the baseball field, Wrigley Field stadium and the Chicago Cubs , Wrigley’s Art Designer, Otis Shepard and Ann Harnett, a Chicago softball star. Dottie Kamenshek, a member of the Rockford Peaches team, is shown in one of the uniforms, above.
Photo from Rockford Morning Star May 19, 1946
Text on uniform design credit: from http://www.aagpbl.org
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