Chicago Colleens
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The Chicago Colleens were a women's professional baseball team who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1948 to 1951, evolving into a development team. The team was based
1948 Chicago Colleens Front row, L-R: Doris Tetzlaff, Charlene Barnett, Betty Whiting, Marilyn Olinger, Beulah Anne Georges. Eileen Albright, Rita Briggs. Second row, L-R: Donna Cook, Betty Tucker, Dave Bancroft (manager), Mirtha Marrero, Migdalia Pérez. Back row, L-R: Kathryn Vonderau, Josephine Kabick, Eleanor Callow, Dolores Wilson, Dorice Reid, Margaret Johnson (chaperone).
Dave Bancroft
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David James Bancroft was an American professional baseball player and manager. A shortstop, he played in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies, New York Giants, Boston Braves and the Bro
Chicago Colleens
…their home games at Shewbridge Field. The Colleens joined the strong Eastern Division in the 1948 season and were managed by former Major League player Dave Bancroft. The team was the worst in the league, getting roughed up as a last-place expansion club with a 47–76 record, ending twenty nine and a half games out…
Bancroft with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1915
Bancroft's 1916 baseball card
Bancroft in 1920
Bancroft's plaque at the Baseball Hall of Fame