Passing: Dottie Collins, Star of Women's Baseball League (NY Times)
From The New York Times:
By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
Published: August 15, 2008
Dottie Collins, who was a star pitcher in women’s professional baseball in the 1940s and later played a major role in preserving the history of the women’s game, died on August 17 in Fort Wayne, Ind. She was 84.
In 1987, Collins helped form an association of former players in the All-American league. She drew on her contacts to provide the Hall of Fame with memorabilia from the league, spurring creation of its Women in Baseball exhibit in 1988. Now an enlarged, permanent collection, the exhibit inspired the 1992 Hollywood movie “A League of Their Own,” a reprise of women’s pro baseball during World War II.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/sports/baseball/17collins.html?adxnnl=1&ref=obituaries&adxnnlx=1218985599-ZU/4gAr/iZuY75Y0unIgNg
By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
Published: August 15, 2008
Dottie Collins, who was a star pitcher in women’s professional baseball in the 1940s and later played a major role in preserving the history of the women’s game, died on August 17 in Fort Wayne, Ind. She was 84.
In 1987, Collins helped form an association of former players in the All-American league. She drew on her contacts to provide the Hall of Fame with memorabilia from the league, spurring creation of its Women in Baseball exhibit in 1988. Now an enlarged, permanent collection, the exhibit inspired the 1992 Hollywood movie “A League of Their Own,” a reprise of women’s pro baseball during World War II.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/sports/baseball/17collins.html?adxnnl=1&ref=obituaries&adxnnlx=1218985599-ZU/4gAr/iZuY75Y0unIgNg
posted by eric model | 8:05 AM
1 Comments:
I never learned about Dottie and the women's baseball league until the film "A League of Their Own." I wish I'd known about them back in the 1970s when I was a girl who wanted desperately to play the game.
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