Betsy Jochum's All American Girls Professinal Baseball League Contract
date: label: date made
content: 1947
name: label: user
content: Jochum, Betsy
notes: label: Description
content: Player's contract for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League signed by Betsy Jochum in 1947.
label: Description
content: Betsy Jochum was one of the original sixty members of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, founded in 1943. Jochum played the entirety of her six year career (1943-1948) with the South Bend (Indiana) Blue Sox.
label: Description
content: Jochum was a speedy outfielder with the ability to put the bat on the ball. Often leading off for the Blue Sox, she amassed 354 stolen bases, including seven in one game, and led the league in hits twice (1943, 1944.)
label: Description
content: Jochum retired in 1948, staying in South Bend to become a teacher. The AAGPBL ceased operations in 1954.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: Subject
content: Baseball
label: Subject
content: Women's History
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0071.04
label: accession number
content: 2005.0071
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0071.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Contract
label: Object Name
content: contract, baseball
label: Object Name
content: baseball contract
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 8 1/2 in; 27.94 cm x 21.59 cm