Wilma Briggs, formerly a star player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, holding up a baseball she hit for a home run

Item Information

Title:
Wilma Briggs, formerly a star player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, holding up a baseball she hit for a home run
Description:
From a series of images culled by Borchers for a slideshow of her work. Camera caption: "Monday, Nov. 21, 2011. Wilma Briggs shows the 10-inch ball she hit her 9th home run of the season with. Feature for Thanksgiving weekend on Wilma Briggs, who just turned 81, and was a star player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball league from 1948-1954. She grew up in East Greenwich where her father was a farmer. She is a retired Rhode Island school teacher and speaks at area schools about her career. She had a cameo in the Geena Davis-Tom Hanks-Madonna movie: A League of Their Own."
Date:
November 21, 2011
Format:
Photographs
Manuscripts
Genre:
Color photographs
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 001 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
Kathy Borchers Photojournalism Collection
Subjects:
Women baseball players--Rhode Island--Photographs
Briggs, Wilma
Places:
Rhode Island
Extent:
1 photograph ; 35 mm.
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/muph083-b03-f22-dvd-i186
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
South Kingstown (R.I.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
muph083-b03-f22-dvd-i186