The Peoria Redwings were a women's professional baseball team who joined the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was a women's professional baseball league founded by Philip K. Wrigley which existed from 1943 to 1954. During the league's history, over 600 women played ball.-History:...

 in the season. The team represented Peoria, Illinois

Peoria, Illinois

Peoria is the largest city on the Illinois River and the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, in the United States. It is named after the Peoria tribe. As of the 2010 census, the city was the seventh-most populated in Illinois, with a population of 115,007, and is the third-most populated...

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The Redwings made an unsteady start in their inaugural season, going 33-79 to finish last 41 games out of first place in the Western Division. The team improved in 1947 with a 54-57, good to finish in fifth place in the eight-team contest.

Their most productive came in 1948, when they finished 71-55 for the third place in the division and fourth overall, gaining a playoff spot, but were swept by the Racine Belles

Racine Belles

The Racine Belles were one of the original teams of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League playing from through out of Racine, Wisconsin. The team played its home games at Horlick Field.-History:...

 in three straight games.

Peoria fell to 36-43 and last place in 1949, and next-to-last in 1950 after ending 44-63-2. Then went 48-56-2 in 1951, their last season, having finished over .500 just once in six years of existence. Some players of note included Doris Barr

Doris Barr

Doris Barr [Dodie] was a pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 6", 145 lb., Barr batted and threw left-handed...

, Thelma Eisen

Thelma Eisen

Thelma Eisen [Tiby] is a former outfielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 4", 130 lb., she batted and threw right-handed....

, Betty McKenna

Betty McKenna

Betty McKenna [Mac] was a third basewoman who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. McKenna batted and threw right-handed. She was born in Lisbon, Ohio....

, Dorothy Mueller

Dorothy Mueller

Dorothy Mueller [Bajda] was a pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League between the and seasons. Listed at 5' 11", 160 lb., Mueller batted and threw right handed...

, Mary Reynolds

Mary Reynolds (baseball)

Mary Reynolds was an utility who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She batted and threw right handed....

, Dorothy Stolze

Dorothy Stolze

Dorothy Stolze [Dottie] was a second basewoman who played from through for four different teams of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League...

 and Mary Wisham.

List of players

• Velma Abbott
  Velma Abbott
  Flora Velma Abbott was an utility infielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 2", 110 lb., she batted and threw right handed....
  
  
• Mildred Baker
• Doris Barr
  Doris Barr
  Doris Barr [Dodie] was a pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 6", 145 lb., Barr batted and threw left-handed...
  
  
• Mary Baumgartner
  Mary Baumgartner
  Mary Baumgartner [Wimp] is a former female catcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League...
  
  
• Mary Beschorner
• Maybelle Blair
• Kay Blumetta
  Kay Blumetta
  Catherine Kay Blumetta [Swish] was an utility who played for six different clubs in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League between the and seasons...
  
  
• Phyllis Bookout
• Rita Briggs
  Rita Briggs
  Rita Briggs [Maud] was a female catcher who played from through for seven different teams in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 3", 120 lb., Briggs batted left-handed and threw right-handed...
  
  
• Marian Bryson
• Katherine Buccor
• Florence Bucior
• Marge Callaghan
  Marge Callaghan
  Margaret Callaghan Maxwell was an infielder who played from 1944-1951 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 3", 112 lb., she batted and threw right-handed....
  
  
• Eleanor Callow
  Eleanor Callow
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• Mary Carey
• Jean Cione
  Jean Cione
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• Corinne Clark
• Pauline Crawley
• Mary Dailey

• Faye Dancer
  Faye Dancer
  Faye Katherine Dancer was a center fielder who played from through for three different teams of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League...
  
  
• Alice DeCambra
  Alice DeCambra
  Alice G. DeCambra [″Moose″] was an infielder and pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 3", 126 lb., she batted and threw right handed...
  
  
• Mildred Deegan
  Millie Deegan
  Mildred Eleanor Deegan was an American pitcher and second baseman who played ten seasons in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, from to .-Background:...
  
  
• Jerre Denoble
  Jerre Denoble
  Jerre Denoble was an American outfielder who played part of a season in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She batted and threw right handed....
  
  
• Terry Donahue
  Terry Donahue (baseball)
  Terry Donahue is a former female utility in baseball, playing mainly as a catcher for the Peoria Redwings of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from through . Listed at 5' 2", 125 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.Donahue was born in Saskatchewan, Canada of Irish ancestry...
  
  
• Thelma Eisen
  Thelma Eisen
  Thelma Eisen [Tiby] is a former outfielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 4", 130 lb., she batted and threw right-handed....
  
  
• June Emerson
• Lillian Faralla
  Lillian Faralla
  Lillian Faralla [Lil] is a former female pitcher and utility who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She batted and threw right-handed.-A brief history:...
  
  
• Dorothy Ferguson
  Dorothy Ferguson
  Dorothy B. Ferguson Key [Dottie] was an infielder and outfielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League...
  
  
• Helen Filarski
  Helen Filarski
  Helen Filarski [Steffes] is a former infielder and outfielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 2", 125 lb., she batted and threw right handed....
  
  
• Loretta Flessner
• Barbara Galdonik
• Luisa Gallegos
• Geraldine Guest
• Audrey Haine
  Audrey Haine
  Audrey Haine [Daniels] is a former pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League between the and seasons...
  
  
• Ann Harnett
  Ann Harnett
  Ann Harnett is a former female utility who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 6", 139 lb., Harnett batted and threw right-handed...
  
  
• Josephine Hasham
  Josephine Hasham
  Josephine Hasham [״Jo״] is a former pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Hasham batted right handed and threw left handed....
  
  
• Beverly Hatzell
• Joyce Hill
  Joyce Hill
  Joyce E. Hill [Westerman] is a former catcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 5", 150 lb., she batted left handed and threw right handed....
  
  

• Barbara Hines
• Nadine Hoffman
• Alice Hohlmayer
  Alice Hohlmayer
  Alice Hohlmayer [Naughton] is a former first basewoman and pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League...
  
  
• Jane Jacobs
• Frances Jannsen
• Mary Jennings
• Christine Jewett
• Josephine Kabick
  Josephine Kabick
  Josephine Kabick [Jo] was a female pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 7", 142 lb., Kabick batted and threw right-handed...
  
  
• Jackie Kelley
  Jackie Kelley
  Jacqueline Kelley [née Savage] was an utility infielder/outfielder and pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 7", 140 lb., she batted and threw right handed....
  
  
• Irene Kerwin
• Erma Keyes
• Glenna Sue Kidd
• Phyllis Koehn
  Phyllis Koehn
  Phyllis C. Koehn [″Sugar″] was a pitcher and utility who played from through for six different teams of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 5", 120 lb., Koehn batted and threw right-handed. She was born in Madison, Wisconsin.By the fall of 1942, World War II...
  
  
• Mary Lou Kolanko
• Jaynie  Krick
• Mary Lawson
  Mary Lawson
  Mary Lawson is a Canadian novelist.Born in southwestern Ontario, she spent her childhood in Blackwell, Ontario and is a distant relative of L. M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables. Her father worked as a research chemist...
  
  
• Noella Leduc
• Annabelle Lee
  Annabelle Lee
  Annabelle Lee Harmon was a female pitcher who played from through with four different teams of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 2", 120 lb, Lee was a switch-hitter and threw left-handed...
  
  
• Josephine Lenard
  Josephine Lenard
  Veronica Josephine Lenard [″Bubblegum″] was a center fielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 4", 130 lb., she batted and threw right-handed....
  
  

• Kay Lionikas
  Kay Lionikas
  Irene Lionikas [Kay] was a female professional center fielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League...
  
  
• Helene Machado
• Lenora Mandella
• Mary McCarty
  Mary McCarty
  Mary McCarty was a County Commissioner in Palm Beach County, Florida from November 1990 until her resignation - announced on January 8, 2009. Along with her husband, Kevin McCarty, she steered bond deals with the county government, the county's Housing Finance Authority, the city of Delray Beach,...
  
  
• Betty McKenna
  Betty McKenna
  Betty McKenna [Mac] was a third basewoman who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. McKenna batted and threw right-handed. She was born in Lisbon, Ohio....
  
  
• Naomi Meier
• Norma Metrolis
• Rita Meyer
  Rita Meyer (baseball)
  Rita Ann Meyer [Moellering] was a female shortstop and pitcher who played from through for the Peoria Redwings of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 10", 145 lb., Meyer batted and threw right-handed. She was born in Florissant, Missouri.Rita Meyer was the...
  
  
• Dolores Mueller
• Dorothy Mueller
  Dorothy Mueller
  Dorothy Mueller [Bajda] was a pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League between the and seasons. Listed at 5' 11", 160 lb., Mueller batted and threw right handed...
  
  
• Mary Nesbitt
  Mary Nesbitt Wisham
  Mary Nesbitt [Choo-Choo] is a former pitcher and first basewoman who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 8", 155 lb., Nesbitt batted and threw left handed. She was born Marie Crews Nesbitt in Greenville, South Carolina...
  
  
• Marguerite Pearson
  Marguerite Pearson
  Marguerite Pearson [Tesseine] was an utility who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League between the and seasons. Listed at 5' 5", 125 lb., Pearson batted and thew right handed...
  
  
• Marjorie Pieper
• Mary Reynolds
  Mary Reynolds (baseball)
  Mary Reynolds was an utility who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She batted and threw right handed....
  
  
• Jenny Romatowski
  Jenny Romatowski
  Jenniffer A. Romatowski [″Romey″] is a former utility who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5'4", 145 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.-A brief history:...
  
  
• Eilaine Roth
  Eilaine Roth
  Eilaine Roth [″I″] was an outfielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 2", 123 lb., she batted and threw right-handed....
  
  
• Elaine Roth
  Elaine Roth
  Elaine Roth [E] was a female pitcher and outfielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League...
  
  
• Mary Rountree
• Gloria Ruis

• Margaret Russo
  Margaret Russo
  Margaret Russo [née Jones] was a shortstop who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 4", 130 lb., she batted and threw right handed....
  
  
• June Schofield
• Twila Shively
  Twila Shively
  Twila Shively [″Twi″] was an outfielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 6", 128 lb., she batted and threw right handed....
  
  
• Frances Sloan
• Jean Smith
  Jean Smith (baseball)
  Jean Marie Smith was an outfielder and relief pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 6", 128...
  
  
• Shirley Smith
• Donna Stageman
• Elma Steck
• Jane Stoll
  Jane Stoll
  Jane Stoll was an outfielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 2", 135 lb., she batted and threw right-handed....
  
  
• Dorothy Stolze
  Dorothy Stolze
  Dorothy Stolze [Dottie] was a second basewoman who played from through for four different teams of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League...
  
  
• Beverly Stuhr
• Betty Tucker
  Betty Tucker
  Elizabeth Tucker [Betty] is a former pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 4", 123 lb., she batted and threw right-handed....
  
  
• Kathryn Vonderau
  Kathryn Vonderau
  Kathryn E. Vonderau was a catcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 7", 155 lb., she batted and threw right handed....
  
  
• Nancy Warren
  Nancy Warren (baseball)
  Nancy Warren was a pitcher and infielder who played from through for six different teams of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 5", 130 lb., she batted and threw right handed...
  
  
• Margaret Wenzel
• Ruth Williams
  Ruth Williams
  Ruth Williams [Heverly] was a pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 4", 139 lb., she batted and threw right handed....
  
  
• Dolores Wilson
• Mary Wood

Managers

* 1946	Bill Rodgers Bill Rodgers (infielder) Wilbur Kincaid Rodgers [″Rawmeat Bill″] was a backup infielder in Major League Baseball, playing mainly as a second baseman from through for the Cleveland Indians , Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds . Listed at 5' 9.5", 170 lb., Rodgers batted left-handed and threw right-handed... Thelma Eisen Thelma Eisen Thelma Eisen [Tiby] is a former outfielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 4", 130 lb., she batted and threw right-handed....
* 1947	Johnny Gottselig
* 1947 * 1948 * 1949	Leo Schrall Leo Schrall Leo Schrall was an infielder and manager in minor league baseball and a head coach in college baseball....
* 1950	Leo Murphy Leo Murphy (baseball) Leo Joseph Murphy [Red] was a catcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates during the season. Listed at 6' 1", 179 lb., Murphy batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Terre Haute, Indiana.Murphy started his professional career in 1912 with Double-A Columbus... Mary Reynolds Mary Reynolds (baseball) Mary Reynolds was an utility who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She batted and threw right handed....
* 1951	Johnny Rawlings Johnny Rawlings John William Rawlings [Red] was a second baseman and shortstop in Major League Baseball who played for six different teams between the and seasons. Listed at 5'8", 158 lb., he batted and threw right-handed....

Sources

• All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company. Format: Paperback, 294pp. Language: English. ISBN 0786437472. ISBN 9780786437474

External links

• All-American Girls Professional Baseball League