This exhibit is on loan from Exhibits USA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance and The National Endowment for the Arts.
Look for baseball-themed programs throughout the summer. Sounds of America’s pastime: the crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd, the cheers of “Atta girl!” While the 1992 film 'A League of Their Own' introduced contemporary audiences to the WWII-era All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, women’s baseball actually began with the creation of the Vassar College team in 1866. Women were paid to play ball less than a decade later, and a surprising number of women were included on 20th-century men’s teams.
Linedrives and Lipstick: The Untold Story of Women’s Baseball documents this forgotten side of America’s pastime with 45 images and 10 objects selected from one of the nation’s largest collections of women’s baseball memorabilia. A 1910 postcard featuring the Boston Bloomers, “Ladies Champion Baseball Club of the World,” touts the game as “A High Class, Moral Amusement,” while a 1931 soap advertisement depicting a cherubic, skirted blonde sliding into first base asks, “What’s wrong with the world when girls just will be boys?” These postcards of women at bat in long skirts, images of girls with scraped knees, and historic black-and-white photographs document more than a century of change for women’s baseball.
This toasty, creamy, gooey treat is the Nutella Bagel — Nutella and sliced bananas on a toasted cinnamon raisin bagel ......
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