Title: A concurrent resolution honoring the 75th anniversary of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
Policy area: Sports and Recreation

Summary:
Honors the 75th anniversary of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Con. Res. 53 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. CON. RES. 53

 Honoring the 75th anniversary of the All-American Girls Professional 
                            Baseball League.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 29, 2018

    Ms. Warren (for herself and Mr. Markey) submitted the following 
concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Commerce, 
                      Science, and Transportation

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
 Honoring the 75th anniversary of the All-American Girls Professional 
                            Baseball League.

Whereas the manpower demands of World War II forced many minor league baseball 
        teams to disband as players were drafted, resulting in a dearth of minor 
        league teams by late 1942;
Whereas, in late 1942, the Federal Government warned major league baseball teams 
        that increased manpower mobilization could result in cancellation of the 
        1943 baseball season, which threatened to shutter Major League Baseball 
        parks across the country;
Whereas the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) was 
        established, and spring training for the League started on May 17, 1943, 
        to address the shortage of baseball players;
Whereas, from 1943 to 1954, the League provided more than 600 women the chance 
        to play professional baseball, an opportunity never before afforded to 
        female athletes in the United States;
Whereas Penny Marshall's film, ``A League of Their Own,'' familiarized millions 
        of people in the United States with the history of the League; and
Whereas at least 29 women from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts played in the 
        League, including Noella Leduc Alverson, Rita Briggs, Patricia Brown, 
        Jean Buckley, Cynthia Esposito Normine Capritta, Joan Tysver Chiancola, 
        Clara Chiano, Patricia Courtney, Mary Dailey, Alice DeCambra, Madeline 
        English, Annie Gosbee, Dorothy Green, Josephine Hasham, Lillian DeCambra 
        Kelley, Marie Mansfield Kelley, Helen Ketola LaCamera, Rhoda Leonard 
        Linehan, Marie Eileen Albright Lockhart, Georgette Vincent Mooney, Helen 
        Nordquist, Beatrice Arbour Parrott, Katherine Pechulis, Lucille Stone 
        Richards, Grace Rogato, Mary Sheehan, Barbara Parks Young, Sue Parsons 
        Zipay, and Mary Pratt of Quincy, who is celebrating her 100th birthday 
        this year: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), 
That Congress honors the 75th anniversary of the All-American Girls 
Professional Baseball League.
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