WOMEN'S SOFTBALL

AMATEUR SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION (ASA) WORLD AMATEUR SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT / WOMEN'S "MAJOR" FASTPITCH CHAMPIONS (1933-1955)

AMERICAN SOFT BALL ASSOCIATION (ASBA) WOMEN'S FASTPITCH CHAMPIONS (1933-1950)

(1) The Bachelor Girls were champions of North Side Park, the organization’s only ballpark at the time.

(2) Whiteway Cleaners were declared city champions based on the best record among the women’s leagues operated at the organization’s five ballparks.

(3) Organizational affiliation uncertain; may have still been ASBA or a different organization.

(4) Organizational affiliation uncertain; may have still been ASBA or a different organization.

BOOKS

LEAGUES

Amateur Softball Association / USA Softball Amateur Governing Body United States of America 1933-Present

All-American Girls' Soft Ball League / All-American Girls Base Ball League / All-American Girls' Professional Baseball League / American Girls' Baseball League Professional League Midwest, United States of America 1943-1954

American Collegiate League Amateur / Collegiate Summer Softball League United States of America 2022-Present

American Girls' Softball League / American Girls' Baseball Conference / Eastern States Girls Baseball League Amateur / Professional / Semi-Professional League Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, & Washington, DC, United States of America 1945-1954

American Soft Ball Association Amateur Governing Body United States of America 1933-?

Association of Fastpitch Professionals Professional League United States of America 2024

Athletes Unlimited Professional League Rosemont, IL, United States of America 2020-Present

Athletes Unlimited Softball League Professional League United States of America 2025-Present

California Girl's Professional Baseball League Professional League Greater Los Angeles 1946

Division 1 Softball Féminin Amateur / Semi-Professional League France 1977-Present

Central Europe Women's Softball Euroleague Amateur League Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, & Slovakia 2014-Present

Extraliga žen Amateur / Semi-Professional League Czech Republic 1979-Present

Fielder American League & National League Amateur League Burbank, CA, United States of America 1948-1952

Fiedler American League & National League Amateur / Semi-Professional League Los Angeles, CA, United States of America 1935-1941

International Girls Baseball League Professional League South Florida Winter 1952-1953

International Girls' Major Softball League Amateur League Canada & United States of America 1942

NATIONAL SOFTBALL CONGRESS (NSC) ALL-TIME AWARD WINNERS (WOMEN)

PEOPLE

ISABELLE BAXTER

GENEVIEVE "SKIPPER" BECK

PITCHER

LILLIAN "TUFFY" BROWN

PITCHER

EVELYN CLARK

JERRIE COBB

"TOSSING" TESS DODENHOFF

PITCHER

AUDREY ERICKSON

CATHERINE FELLMETH

PITCHER

DOROTHY "DOT" FAGAINES (née ACEVEDO)

PITCHER

ANNE GOLDSTEIN

ANNE GOLDSTEIN, ELLA CARROTS, VIOLETTE RUPPERT, & "SHORTY" KASTENS

DOROTHY GRAMBERG

FIRST BASE

GEORGE W. HANCOCK

THE FATHER OF INDOOR BASEBALL

ELISE HARNEY

PITCHER

BILLIE HARRIS

PITCHER

PATTY HOGAN & RONNIE HOGAN

CATCHER & PITCHER

CORDIUS JACKSON & GLADYS JACKSON

OUTFIELDERS

DOT "THE BULLET" SHAW JACKSON

PITCHER

JOAN JOYCE

PITCHER

DOROTHY "BOOTS" KLUPPING

PITCHER

NINA "TIGER" KORGAN

PITCHER

MARGIE LAW

PITCHER

DONNA LOPIANO

PITCHER

JACKIE MATTSON

CATCHER

PICS

June 3, 1925

Nan Gindele (left), Catherine Fellmeth (center), & Marguerite Eastham (right)

September 14, 1937: The National Screw & Manufacturing Team of Cleveland, Ohio, won the girl's championship at the National Softball Tournament held at Soldier's Field in Chicago on 9/4, by defeating the Rayls of Detroit, MI, in the final game of the tournament. Dorothy Underwood, manager of the Nationals, is shown receiving the championship trophy from Edward Cochrane, official of the tournament.

1936 MONTGOMERY VEE-EIGHTS

CHICAGO, IL

Saturday, December 6, 1941

In this 1937 film about softball, Girls Can Play, Rita Hayworth is featured as a catcher.

Sunday, September 29, 1946

In this 1937 film about softball, Girls Can Play, Rita Hayworth is featured as a catcher.

1937 EDDIE MCCABE'S

CHICAGO, IL

1937 VOGEL'S BLOOMER GIRLS

FOREST PARK, IL

1938 J.J. KRIEG'S

ALAMEDA, CA

Babe Ruth with members of the New York Roverettes & New York Americanettes softball teams.

Gwen Wong, 14-year-old pitcher of the "Thirty-Niners" softball team of San Francisco, CA.

1942 GARDEN CITY BEER MAIDS

CHICAGO, IL

Monday, July 14, 1947

Members of the 1948-1949 Lind and Pomeroy Florists softball team of Portland, OR. The players are (from left to right) C. Miner, Irene Maas, Betty Evans, and Dolores Price.