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Fort Wayne Daisies Photos

February 16th, 2009 | Author: Chad Gramling

The Fort Wayne Daisies of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBl) have become a wonderful legacy to Fort Wayne. When I was working on Baseball in Fort Wayne, as I talked about the project, I heard “you gonna have anything about the Daisies in there?” or similar questions often. For the record, I do. Albeit, not as much as I would have liked.

Since that time, I have found some other on-line resourcesand previously existing resources have been added to. I don’t own the copyright to any of them, so I cannot show them here. However, I can link with a bit of narrative, so here goes:

All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) Website: This is the most obvious place to start. However, not quite as large a repository as you might expect.

FloridaMemory.com has several outstanding photos of the Daisies while they trained in Opa-locka Florida. Great individual shots include; Dottie Schroeder, Marg Callaghan sliding into home plate, Marie Wegman “arguing” with umpire Norris Ward, Mary Rountree, manager Dick Bass giving members of the club pointers on new 10-3/8, and more.

The Allen County Public Library has a great community album that includes many local baseball photos, including several Daisies photos. Some of htem are:

I should also mention that the Northeast Indiana Center for History in South Bend has a sizable AAGPBL repository, but none are on-line. Stop in and see it if you are in the area. The same can be said of the Allen County – Fort Wayne Historical Society as well as the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The latter also has a great educational guide on the history of women in baseball, called “Women’s History: Dirt on Their Skirts”.

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2 Responses to “Fort Wayne Daisies Photos”

  • Joan Hartman:
    April 7, 2010 at 7:43 pm

    I just read the book “Dottie Wiltse Collins”. I bought it in Fort Wayne.

    It says there is a monument to the Daisies in Memorial Park. Which park is Memorial Park and is the monument still there?

    Hopefully someone can answer these questions.

    Thank you.

  • Carol Owens:
    July 3, 2011 at 4:11 pm

    Hi, I grew up in Fort Wayne and was a Junior Daisy till about 1957. I lived near Memorial Park which is on Washington Sreet in what was an industrial area of Ft. Wayne, It was once a major highway through Ft.Wayne. It’s been awhile since I moved away and now live in CA. Went I went back to see the park, it was so small compared to the way I had remembered it. I went to every Daisy home game and sometimes followed them on the road. I have scrapbooks of those days with autographs and photos of the players. What a great place to grow up. Hope this helps. Thanks, Carol

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