Birmingham News Article Featuring Delores "Dolly" Brumsfield White.

Birmingham News Article Featuring Delores "Dolly" Brumsfield White.

Sunday, February 27, 1994

The Birmingham News

This article was published Sunday February 27, 1994 by Bill Piott of The Birmingham News. In this article Delores “Dolly” Brumsfield White talks about her playing days with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and how she played baseball to finance her education at The University of Montevallo. During the interview she talked about getting paid fifty-five dollars a week her first year in the league “Which was good money for women in those days.” White stated in the interview that she had played three years in the league before she came to The University of Montevallo and three years while she was attending the University. White stated that very few people knew that she played professional baseball and that in those days it was socially unacceptable to be a female athlete. She also talked about her childhood growing up in Prichard, Alabama and how she would play ball before and after school with the shipyard workers. She also talks about how her principal gave her permission to quit school and attend spring training with South Bend’s ball club in Havana Cuba at the age of 14. She played seven years in the league and retired at the age of twenty-one.

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All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

University of Montevallo

Delores "Dolly" Brumsfield White

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