It was a blissful setting for a baseball team on the diamond in Racine Wisconsin and nothing that happened off the field could prevent the Belles players from feeling ecstatic as they helped start womens professional baseball league during the onset of World War II Racine Belles 1943 Manager: Johnny Gottselig, Chaperone: Marie Anderson. 

Players: Joanne Winter, Dorothy Hunter, Mary Nesbit, Charlotte Smith, Eleanor Dapkus, Sophie Kurys, Dorothy Wind, Margaret Danhauser, Dorothy Maguire, Gloria Marks, Irene Hickson, Madeline English, Edythe Perlick, Clara Schillace, Annabelle Thompson

Cover Photo of 1945 Racine Belles Year Book

Baseball Historian author John Balazs is proud to present women's baseball history in honor of his 5 wonderful granddaughters