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1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
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2 | | WHEREAS, The Rockford Peaches were a women's professional |
3 | | baseball team that played from 1943 through 1954 in the |
4 | | All-American Girls Professional Baseball League; and
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5 | | WHEREAS, With America's entry into World War II, several |
6 | | major league baseball executives decided to start a new |
7 | | professional baseball league with women players in order to |
8 | | maintain baseball in the public eye while the majority of men |
9 | | were away; and
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10 | | WHEREAS, The Rockford Peaches played their home games at |
11 | | Beyer Stadium on 15th Avenue in Rockford; they won league |
12 | | titles in 1945, 1948, 1949, and 1950; and
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13 | | WHEREAS, Rockford Peaches who were named to all-star teams |
14 | | included Dorothy Kamenshek, Lois Florreich, Dorothy Harrell, |
15 | | Carolyn Morris, Alice Pollitt, Ruth Richard, Rose Gacioch, |
16 | | Eleanor Callow, and Joan Berger; and
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17 | | WHEREAS, The Rockford Peaches were immortalized in the 1992 |
18 | | film, A League of Their Own, which was directed by Penny |
19 | | Marshall and starred Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, |
20 | | Madonna, and Rosie O'Donnell, and gave us the classic line |
21 | | "There's no crying in baseball!"; and
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