Risinger, Earlene "Beans" (Interview transcript and video), 2009
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Title
Risinger, Earlene "Beans" (Interview transcript and video), 2009
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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
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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
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Language
eng
Citation
Risinger, Earlene, “Risinger, Earlene "Beans" (Interview transcript and video), 2009,” Digital Collections, accessed April 26, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29705.