Amanda Clement, Hudson, South Dakota
was the first woman paid to umpire a baseball game

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Glenbow Archives
Calgary, Alberta
#NA-3535-160

"Chaddy" Thomson
Pitcher on the girls' baseball team
Parkland, Alberta
Early 1920s
Photographer unknown

From the film "Baseball Girls"
Directed by Lois Siegel
National Film Board of Canada
"Even your grandmother may have been a baseball player"

New York Female Giants - All-Women Baseball Team, 1913
Ida Schnall with crossed bats

1890-91 Young Ladies’ Base Ball Club No. 1

Photo by G. W. Pach
"The Resolutes"
Earliest photo of a Vassar College Baseball Club
June 1876
(Reference # 3.457)
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Vassar College Libraries
Archives & Special Collections

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Yankee Stadium, Opening Day, 1923

The $2.5 million "House That Ruth Built" opens with a crowd of 74,200. More than 25,000 fans were turned away at the turnstiles as the Yankees defeated the Red Sox, 4-1. Governors, generals, politicians and baseball officials were on hand for the dedication ceremonies, but the real baptism came in the third inning when Babe Ruth smashed a ball into the right field bleachers,
the first home run in the Bronx stadium.

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Amanda Clement, Hudson, South Dakota was the first woman paid to umpire a baseball game

Amanda Clement, Hudson, South Dakota
was the first woman paid to umpire a baseball game