O'Dowd, Anna Mae, “O'Dowd, Anna (Interview transcript and video), 2016,” Digital Collections, accessed April 2, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/29721.
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O'Dowd, Anna (Interview transcript and video), 2016
Annie O’Dowd was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1929. She graduated from high school in 1947 and worked in a box factory before trying out for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1949. She was initially placed in the Chicago Colleens, a travelling team (similar to a minor-league team), and played with them for a season. After the Colleens, she joined the Rockford Peaches and played with them for half of a season. The final team she played with was the Kalamazoo Lassies in the early 1950s before leaving the League.