Youngen, Lois (Interview transcript and video), 2010

Boring, Frank (Interviewer)

Lois Youngen was born in a small town in Ohio in 1933. She grew up playing baseball with boys from her town, and played on a boys' team for several years before switching to a girls' softball team while in high school. She learned about the All American League while visiting a relative in Fort Wayne in 1950. She joined the league the next year and played for Fort Wayne, Kenosha and South Bend as a catcher and outfielder until the league folded in 1954. She used the money she earned as a player to go to college, and eventually earned a doctorate in Physical Education and taught at the University of Oregon.

2010-08-04

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

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

RHC-58_LYoungen

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