McCoy, Joyce Barnes (Interview transcript and video), 2009
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McCoy, Joyce Barnes, “McCoy, Joyce Barnes (Interview transcript and video), 2009,” Digital Collections, accessed March 29, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29685.
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McCoy, Joyce Barnes (Interview transcript and video), 2009
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Olson, Gordon (Interviewer)
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Joyce Barnes McCoy was born in on a farm south of Hutchinson, Kansas on October 18, 1925. She played softball with her siblings and then played various sports throughout grade and high schools. One day while still in high school she was reading a Hutchinson News article in which read that Phillip Wrigley was looking for girls to try-out for women's softball teams up in Chicago. After one correspondence—Mr. Wrigley paid Barnes' way to the tryout in Chicago. She started and ended her professional career by playing with the Kenosha Comets in 1943. She played as a pitcher while there.
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2009-09-27
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Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
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Veterans History Project (U.S.)
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