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The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

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During World War II, Philip K. Wrigley created a professional women's baseball league that ran for twelve seasons and employed more than 600 players. Historian Dr. Leslie Heaphy joins Kelly to explain how the league worked, why it ended, and how the film A League of Their Own brought it back into public memory.

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