Risinger, Earlene "Beans" (Interview transcript and video), 2009
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Risinger, Earlene, “Risinger, Earlene "Beans" (Interview transcript and video), 2009,” Digital Collections, accessed March 29, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29705.
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Risinger, Earlene "Beans" (Interview transcript and video), 2009
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Boring, Frank (Interviewer)
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Earlene "Beans" Risinger was born in Hess, Oklahoma, in 1927. She grew up on a farm in Dust Bowl country, and played baseball from a young age with family and friends, and practiced with boys' teams in her community. She saw a newspaper article about the All American Girls Professional Baseball League, and joined the Grand Rapids Chicks in 1948. She went with the League to Spring Training in Cuba in 1948, and then on a postseason trip to Central America. She was a talented pitcher, and pitched the final game when the Chicks won the League championship in 1953, and played until the League folded after the 1954 season.
Date
2009-09-26
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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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