Earlene Risinger's guest appearances

Earlene Risinger

Veterans History Project

Dan Pfeiffer

Mary Pratt

John Erickson

Helen Smith

James Shannon

Michael Burton

Wayne Anderson

Francisco Vega

Audrey Daniels

Maybelle Blair

Sarah Brooks

George Robinson

Jack Hill

James Jefferson

Robert Austin

OwlTail

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.

Earlene Risinger All-American Girls Professional Baseball League WWII GVSU