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Veteran AAGPBL star Joyce Westerman recalls league glory
The 86 year old Westerman, famed for her AAGPBL career with Grand Rapids, Fort Wayne, Peoria, Racine, and South Bend, reflects on tryouts, pay, spring trainings, and the league's evolution. She recalls chaperones, memories of Jackie Robinson, and the 1988 Hall of Fame exhibit that revived interest in women in baseball.
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Joyce Westerman
Isotopes Park
Westerman
Tom Hanks
Jon Lovitz
Madonna
Geena Davis
Rosie O’donnell
Chicago Cubs
Philip Wrigley
Brooklyn Dodgers
Rickey
Aagpbl
San Diego
Io Theak
Kathryn Vonderau
Placitas
Rio Grande
Society For American Baseball Research
SABR
First Westerman
Kenosha
Wisc
West Side
Grand Rapids Chicks
Ft. Wayne
South
Jimmie Foxx
Hanks
Vonderall
Foxx
Vonderau
Cuba
Jackie Robinson
Dodgers
MLB
Pensacola
Fla
National Baseball Hall of Fame
Cooperstown
Hall of Fame
Doubleday Field
Marshall
Davis
Lori Petty
Lovitz
Penny Marshall
Babe Ruth
Syracuse
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Ft. Wayne Daisies
Muskegon Lassies
Chicago Colleens
Peoria Redwings
Muskegon Belles
The
Daisies
South Bend
West
Rio Rancho
Bob Kann
Gary Herron
Cleveland High School
Jim Tillery
Katie Vonderau
Tillery
Storm
Dominique Galloway
Albuquerque City