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    The Peoria Redwings was a women's professional baseball team who joined the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1946 season and remained...
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    Creek Belles Kalamazoo Lassies Springfield Sallies Chicago Colleens Peoria Redwings Grand Rapids Chicks Fort Wayne Daisies Minneapolis Millerettes Milwaukee...
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  • eight games. In 1947 she batted a combined .097 in 31 games with the Peoria Redwings and the Fort Wayne Daisies. Wenzell played right field for the expansion...
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    Peoria (/piˈɔːriə/ pee-OR-ee-ə) is a city in and county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, United States. Located on the Illinois River, the city had a population...
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  • Terry Donahue (baseball) (category Peoria Redwings players)
    utility player in women's baseball, playing mainly as a catcher for the Peoria Redwings of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1946 through...
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  • AAGPBL. Ruiz was added to the Peoria Redwings roster in parts of two seasons, spanning from 1948 to 1949. She was used by Peoria manager Leo Schrall as a backup...
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  • Faye Dancer (category Peoria Redwings players)
    was traded to the Peoria Redwings. Dancer finished the season with a combined average of .237, 51 runs and 26 RBI. In 1948 for Peoria, she batted .272...
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  • Dorothy Ferguson (category Peoria Redwings players)
    regular season and 0-for-3 in the playoffs. She started 1946 with the Peoria Redwings but rejoined the Peaches in the midseason, hitting a combined .183...
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  • year. Williams started 1950 with South Bend, but was traded to the Peoria Redwings during the midseason and ended the year with the Kalamazoo Lassies...
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  • Irene Kerwin (category Peoria Redwings players)
    hometown team, the Peoria Redwings. She was used sparingly as a backup catcher and at first base while appearing in 27 games with the Redwings, who finished...
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  • Maybelle Blair (category Peoria Redwings players)
    Blair was an efficient pitcher when she joined the league with the Peoria Redwings in its 1948 season, even though she appeared in only one game for the...
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  • a shortstop and pitcher who played from 1946 through 1949 for the Peoria Redwings of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft...
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  • Annabelle Lee (category Peoria Redwings players)
    needed to help teams stay afloat. This time she joined the expansion Peoria Redwings in 1946 and was back with a last-place team. Lee went 12–23 with a...
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  • Jerre DeNoble (category Peoria Redwings players)
    baseball when she was 14 years old. She joined the league with the Peoria Redwings in the 1947 season, after attending the first AAGPBL spring training...
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  • Jane Jacobs (baseball) (category Peoria Redwings players)
    respectively. The team had a surplus of talent, so she was loaned to the Peoria Redwings the next year. In 1946, according to the new AAGPBL rules of play,...
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  • Nadine Hoffman (category Peoria Redwings players)
    Baseball League player. Nadine Hoffman played in two games for the Peoria Redwings club in the 1946 season. She went hitless in four at bats. Additional...
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  • Pete Vonachen (category People from Peoria, Illinois)
    in 1943. Then, the Peoria Redwings joined the ladies league in 1946. The AAGPBL folded in 1954, but made its mark not only in Peoria, but in baseball history...
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  • Velma Abbott (category Peoria Redwings players)
    AAGPBL in 1946, dividing her playing time between the Kenosha Comets, Peoria Redwings and Rockford Peaches. She posted a collective .178 batting average...
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    Marge Callaghan (category Peoria Redwings players)
    joining the Fort Wayne Daisies (1945–48), South Bend Blue Sox (1949), Peoria Redwings (1950-'51) and Battle Creek Belles (1951). As a rookie, she hit .182...
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    Thelma Eisen (category Peoria Redwings players)
    the only home run for her team. By 1946 Eisen joined the expansion Peoria Redwings, stealing 128 bases for them while tying for the most triples (9) along...
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  • Florence Bucior (category Peoria Redwings players)
    November 13, 2005, at the age of 85. Bucior appears as a member of the Peoria Redwings club during its 1946 inaugural season. Nevertheless, the league did...
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  • Mary Lou Beschorner (category Peoria Redwings players)
    (14-for-85). She was still considered a rookie when she joined the Peoria Redwings in 1950. Redwings' manager Leo Murphy used her as a fourth outfielder that year...
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  • Betty Tucker (category Peoria Redwings players)
    Mississippi. After making the league tryout, she was allocated to the Peoria Redwings. A hard-thrower underhand pitcher, Tucker struggled through the many...
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  • Jean Cione (category Peoria Redwings players)
    The Muskegon Lassies and Peoria Redwings were added as expansion teams for the 1946 season. Cione was sent to the Redwings, as the AAGPBL shifted players...
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  • Luisa Gallegos (category Peoria Redwings players)
    Castillo and Isabel Alvarez were added. Gallegos was assigned to the Peoria Redwings, playing for them the first half of the season before joining the South...
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  • pitcher, infield 1948-1949 Springfield Sallies, Muskegon Lassies, Peoria Redwings Dorothy Schroeder shortstop, pitcher 1943-1954 South Bend Blue Sox...
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  • go to the league. Machado started her career in the league with the Peoria Redwings in 1946 before joining the Fort Wayne Daisies in 1947. Unfortunately...
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  • signed to a contract. Rountree entered the league in 1946 with the Peoria Redwings, playing for them one year before joining the Fort Wayne Daisies (1947–1952)...
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  • second sacker Evelyn Wawryshyn. She divided her playing time with the Peoria Redwings and the Muskegon Lassies in the 1949 season, collecting a .228 average...
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  • Professional Baseball League. He guided the Racine Belles in 1943–1944, the Peoria Redwings in 1947 and the Kenosha Comets in 1949–1950. He later became an executive...
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