Holderness, Joan (Interview transcript and video), 2010

Boring, Frank (Interviewer)

Joan Holderness was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 1933. She learned to play baseball from her father, and after the Kenosha Comets came to town, she started going to their games and became their bat girl, and was recruited to join the team as an outfielder in 1949, even though her mother would not let her travel farther than Racine for road games. The next year, she got to play full time, and was traded to Grand Rapids. She left the league after the 1950 season and took a regular job at the Great Lakes naval base in Illinois.

2010-08-10

Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

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