The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Uniform

Throughout the United States, museums like the Grand Rapids Public Museum are carefully preserving the uniforms of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The Grand Rapids Public Museum holds an important artifact and archive collection involving one of the League's teams, the Grand Rapids "Chicks." This paper explores the AAGPBL uniform through this collection and others across the Midwest. In addition to oral histories and visual sources, object-based research reveals how the garment was designed and constructed, as well as how it was modified by the women who wore it.