Risinger, Earlene "Beans" (Interview transcript and video), 2009

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Title

Risinger, Earlene "Beans" (Interview transcript and video), 2009

Contributor

Boring, Frank (Interviewer)

Description

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

Rights

Publisher

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

Relation

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

Identifier

RHC-58_ERisinger

Format

application/pdf
video/mp4

Type

Moving Image
Text

Language

eng

Citation

Risinger, Earlene, “Risinger, Earlene "Beans" (Interview transcript and video), 2009,” Digital Collections, accessed November 9, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29705.
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