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NATIONAL GIRLS BASEBALL LEAGUE (NGBL)
1944-1954
In it's 11 seasons, the NGBL endorsed teams from Chicago & surrounding Forest Park and Des Plaines. Clubs took on names like the Chicago Bluebirds, Kandy Kids/Queens, Music Maids, & the Bloomer Girls. In competition with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the NGBL made great attempts to draw the best athletes, offering higher salaries and easier road game schedules. Such perks attracted the attention of many of the sport's greats like shortstop Jaime Deckard & sluggers Freda Savona & Pat Carson.
To broaden their popularity, the NGBL hired big names from men's professional sports to manage the league and the teams. Football legend Harold "Red" Grange was appointed league commissioner while baseball greats, the likes of Buck Weaver & Woody English, were recruited as team managers. During the late 1940's, the NGBL on average attracted 500,000 spectators each year. By 1954 the league had all but died out. Declining interest in women's softball caused many of the circuit's teams to dissolve.
CHAMPIONS
(1) The Rock-Ola Music Maids were declared champions as a result of finishing first during the regular season. The playoffs to determine a league champion were never completed due to weather.
(2) Three teams were left in the league, a fourth (the Chicago All-Stars, later renamed the Jewels) was added mid-season.
SPONSORS
Admiral Corporation sponsored the Music Maids from 1949-1952.
Alemite Corporation sponsored the Queens in 1952.
The American Phenolic Corporation (also known as Amphenol) took over sponsorship of the Belles in 1952 after Dean Electric Company dropped out.
E. J. Brach & Sons sponsored the Kandy Kids in 1944.
Match Corporation of America sponsored the Queens from 1949-1950.
Dean Electric Company of Oak Park, IL, sponsored the Belles in 1952.
Nectar Beer sponored televised NGBL games on WENR-TV in 1949.
Emery Parichy owned the Bloomer Girls team from 1942-1955. His company, Parichy Roofing & Shingle, sponsored the team from 1938-1951 & again in 1955.
Rauland Corporation sponsored the Queens in 1945.
Rock-Ola Manufacturing Corp. sponsored the Music Maids from 1942-1948. They then sponsored the former Chicago Chicks ballclub from 1949-1951,
Mel Thillens Sr. purchased the former Cardinals ballclub & renamed them after his his company Thillens Inc. Check Cashing Service in 1951. The team merged with the Music Maids following the 1952 season.
Tony Piet Motor Sales Inc. sponsored the Queens ballclub in 1951.
Tungsten Manufacturing Company sponsored the Tungsten Sparks from 1944-1946.
Wilson-Jones Company sponsored the Bloomer Girls team from 1952-1954.
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