Box 2

Container

Contains 16 Results:

People Magazine. Aug. 17, 1987. Voices: p. 77. “This Mother could Hit” (Photocopy)

File — Box: 2, Folder: 9

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of action shots, team photos, official programs, a souvenir program from 1986, trading cards, and other ephemera. The clippings primarily date from September 1948 to May 1954. An oral history from the Orwant brothers was added in 2001.

Dates: 1948-1986; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1954

Found in: Grand Rapids History Center / Grand Rapids Chicks / Series III. Publications / B. Magazine and newspaper articles, Other, including unknown sources.

Smithsonian Magazine, July 1989. “The ‘Belles of the Ball Game’ were a hit with their fans” / by Jack Fincher. (photocopies, 2 different versions)

File — Box: 2, Folder: 10

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of action shots, team photos, official programs, a souvenir program from 1986, trading cards, and other ephemera. The clippings primarily date from September 1948 to May 1954. An oral history from the Orwant brothers was added in 2001.

Dates: 1948-1986; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1954

Found in: Grand Rapids History Center / Grand Rapids Chicks / Series III. Publications / B. Magazine and newspaper articles, Other, including unknown sources.

Traces: of Indiana & Midwestern History, Spr. 1993. “Women in Baseball” / Barbara Gregorich. P. 26+ (photocopy)

File — Box: 2, Folder: 11

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of action shots, team photos, official programs, a souvenir program from 1986, trading cards, and other ephemera. The clippings primarily date from September 1948 to May 1954. An oral history from the Orwant brothers was added in 2001.

Dates: 1948-1986; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1954

Found in: Grand Rapids History Center / Grand Rapids Chicks / Series III. Publications / B. Magazine and newspaper articles, Other, including unknown sources.

Women’s Sports, Oct. 1982. P. 48+ “Seasons in the Sun” / by David Young. (photocopy)

File — Box: 2, Folder: 12

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of action shots, team photos, official programs, a souvenir program from 1986, trading cards, and other ephemera. The clippings primarily date from September 1948 to May 1954. An oral history from the Orwant brothers was added in 2001.

Dates: 1948-1986; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1954

Found in: Grand Rapids History Center / Grand Rapids Chicks / Series III. Publications / B. Magazine and newspaper articles, Other, including unknown sources.

Unknown source. “Girls’ Ball Club Would Build $150,000 Field on City Land” (photocopy)

File — Box: 2, Folder: 13

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection consists of action shots, team photos, official programs, a souvenir program from 1986, trading cards, and other ephemera. The clippings primarily date from September 1948 to May 1954. An oral history from the Orwant brothers was added in 2001.

Dates: 1948-1986; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1954

Found in: Grand Rapids History Center / Grand Rapids Chicks / Series III. Publications / B. Magazine and newspaper articles, Other, including unknown sources.

Photocopies of newspaper articles from August 1954, the last season and end of the League. Grand Rapids Press and Grand Rapids Herald

File — Box: 2

Scope and Contents From the Series: An exhibit was prepared by then GRHSCC staff member Martha Bloem in 2001, to commemorate the AAGPBL Reunion, held in Grand Rapids, September 6-8, 2001. The exhibit, which as the designer planned it took the form of a large scrapbook, is expected to be given to the AAGPBL Hall of Fame in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. It has signatures of players and others who attended the exhibit opening at the Library. The material included here are mostly color laser copies of materials which were not eventually...

Dates: 1948-1986; Majority of material found within 1948 - 1954

Found in: Grand Rapids History Center / Grand Rapids Chicks / Series VII. 2001 Exhibit Materials