1911 Eagle COLORADO newspaper w earliest illustrated ad for WOMENS BASEBALL TEAM

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1911 Eagle COLORADO newspaper w earliest illustrated ad for WOMENS BASEBALL TEAM
1911 Eagle COLORADO newspaper with a front page illustrated ad for a very early women's baseball team, the "BLOOMER GIRLS."
- inv # 7S-233
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SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
Eagle Valley Enterprise
(Eagle, EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado) dated Aug 4, 1911.  This original newspaper contains a prominent illustrated front page ad for the
"BLOOMER GIRLS", an early women's baseball team, playing in Eagle, COLORADO
.
This is the earliest illustrated front page ad I have seen for an early women's baseball team, the "BLOOMER GIRLS".
This issue contains national and international news as well as
LOCAL
Eagle County, COLORADO news and ads from nearly 125 years ago. Eagle County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. The county seat is the Town of Eagle. Eagle County was created by the Colorado legislature on February 11, 1883, from portions of Summit County. It was named after the Eagle River, which runs through the county. The county seat was originally set in Red Cliff, Colorado, but was moved to the town of Eagle in 1921.
They’re not the Houston Astros; they never had a movie made about them. But these Wednesday’s Women were once the Girls of Summer. The first women paid to play baseball, they took the field for their first game in 1875.
They couldn’t vote or own property in their own names after marriage, but they could play hardball. And play they did, in floor-length skirts, underskirts, long-sleeved, high-necked blouses, and high-button shoes.
By the late 1800s America was in love with the bicycle and a woman named Amelia Bloomer was sporting loose, harem-style pants that changed the game. Female athletes adopted the fashion and “Bloomer Girls” baseball teams sprung up across the country.
There were no leagues, and the teams rarely played each other. Instead, they barnstormed across America, challenging local, semi-pro and minor-league men’s teams — and often winning. The Bloomer Girls played from the 1890s until 1934.
Teams with names like the All-Star Ranger Girls, Philadelphia Bobbies, NY Bloomer Girls and the Baltimore Black Sox Colored Girls provided employment, travel, adventure and flat-out fun for young women who could bat, catch, field and slide. Edith Houghton (1912-2013), a.k.a. “The Kid,” played shortstop for the Philadelphia Bobbies at age 10.
In 1931, former Bloomer Girl Jackie Mitchell was signed to a men’s minor-league team and struck out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Above are Gehrig, Mitchell, Joe Engle and Babe Ruth engaged in a photo op that turned into a sensational Depression era news story.
And 16-year-old Virne Beatrice “Jackie” Mitchell (1930-1987) pitched for the Chattanooga Englettes before signing for a time to a men’s minor-league team where she pitched to Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Team members, facing societal scolding and dire theories about the adverse effect of exercise on female reproductive organs, were advertised as genuine ladies of purity and good character — no actresses allowed.
And though most of the players were women, each team included at least one male player.
The Bloomer Girls faded as farm clubs formed to provide experience for young men with a future in the majors. By the mid-1930s, America was gripped by the Great Depression, which made it tough to sustain a team.
And despite a winning history for over 40 years, the public still saw women as inferior to men when it came to sports. The last Bloomer Girls team disbanded in 1934, marking an end to the era of women’s professional baseball.
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