The Belles of Baseball: The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

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CHAPTER ONE PLAY BALL It was Sunday September 17 1950 at Beyer Stadium in Rockford Illinois The final game of the best of seven championship series between the Rockford Peaches and the Fort Wayne Daisies had been played earlier in the day The Peaches crushed the powerful Daisies 11 0 to win the All American Girls Professional Baseball League AAGPBL title the team's fourth championship in eight years The stars of the game were Rockford pitcher Nickie Fox and slugging first basewoman Dorothy Kamenshek Fox the owner of a 14 12 record during the regular season racked up her third victory in the championship series the only pitcher in the league to ever accomplish that feat Batter Dorothy Harrell was a star player in her eight seasons with the popular Rockford Peaches one of the founding teams of the AAGPBL