Linedrives and Lipstick: The Untold Story of Women’s Baseball
- Ongoing: until Sunday, March 18, 2012
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- Where: William F. Laman Public Library, North Little Rock
- Cost: Not available
- Age limit: Not available
Linedrives and Lipstick: The Untold Story of Women’s Baseball, explores women’s impact in America’s national pastime, as not a short-lived phenomenon of the 1940s, but from baseball’s beginning in the 1860s. Although American society in general may have looked at women’s involvement in baseball as a curiosity, Linedrives and Lipstick brings to life the images of women who loved the crack of the bat and the thrill of a running one-handed catch with two outs in the ninth.
The exhibition features more than 60 items, ranging from picture postcards, game programs, photographs, posters, and in-depth articles from mainstream magazines such as Colliers, Liberty, and The Saturday Evening Post. Visitors to will get to know Jackie Mitchell, who struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in 1931 and Sophie Kurys of the South Bend Blue Sox, who still holds the record for the most stolen bases in one season in any league - 201 steals in 203 attempts in 1946.
This exhibition is free to the public. For more information about Linedrives and Lipstick or any other exhibit call (501) 758-1720 or visit www.lamanlibrary.org.
An opening reception is slated for 6-8 p.m., Friday, Feb. 3, at the library. The public reception is free and will include music by The Bob Boyd Sounds. Guests will have the chance to meet and greet Dolly Brumfield - All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player from 1947-53 for the South Bend Blue Sox, Kenosha Comets and Fort Wayne Daisies.
This event was posted Jan. 24, 2012 and last updated Jan. 24, 2012
