All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Sport	Women's baseball
Founded	1943 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League season (1943)
Founder	Philip K. Wrigley
First season	1943
Ceased	September 5, 1954
Motto	Do or die!
No. of teams	15
Last; champion(s)	Kalamazoo Lassies
Most titles	Rockford Peaches (4)
Official website	aagpbl.org

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) was a professional women's baseball league founded by Philip K. Wrigley, which existed from 1943 to 1954. The AAGPBL is the forerunner of women's professional league sports in the United States. Over 600 women played in the league, which eventually consisted of 10 teams located in the American Midwest. In 1948, league attendance peaked at over 900,000 spectators. The most successful team, the Rockford Peaches, won a league-best four championships.

The 1992 film A League of Their Own and the 2022 show of the same name are mostly fictionalized accounts of the league and its stars. Sixty-five original AAGPBL members appeared in scenes filmed in October 1991 recreating the induction of the league into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988.^[1]

^ "A League of Their Own (1992) – AFI Catalog Spotlight". American Film Institute. July 1, 2022. Retrieved August 27, 2022.

[1] "A League of Their Own (1992) – AFI Catalog Spotlight". American Film Institute. July 1, 2022. Retrieved August 27, 2022.

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