Cook, Doris (Interview outline and video), 2010

Boring, Frank (Interviewer)

WKTV (Wyoming, Mich.)

Doris Cook was born in Muskegon, Michigan in 1939. She grew up in a large family and played baseball and other sports. When a women's professional baseball team moved to Muskegon in 1946, her older sister tried out and joined the team. Doris then joined the league after finishing high school in 1949, and played first for the Springfield Sallies, a barnstorming team, and then for the Kalamazoo Lassies and the South Bend Blue Sox, and played through the 1953 season. She initially expected to be an outfielder, but when she had some problems running, she was converted to a pitcher, and was a pitcher throughout her professional career.

2010-08-04

Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

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