Found inside – Page 25... of the Pink Turf Soccer League and the Notso Amazon Softball League, recreational leagues that started in the Toronto lesbian community in the 1980s. Found inside – Page 200Toronto's decision to join an American minor league in 1886 led to the end of ... Provincial League in Québec , at times an outlaw Softball Softball is a ... Found inside – Page 98... was the park's new softball diamond which was located just east of the Parkdale Canoe Club (now the Boulevard Club). Several women's leagues shared the ... Found inside – Page 42LADIES ' BOWLING CHAMPS — The high - scoring team of the Toronto C . N . R . A . Ladies ' Bowling League is shown ... A fourth inning uprising by the All Stars proved fatal to the stationery stores team in the softball feature , the All Stars ... Found inside – Page 64League Board of Directors voted to prohibit women managers. ... While most Canadian women played softball, women's baseball developed rapidly in Toronto and ... Found inside – Page 141METHOD In addition to the considerable secondary literature on both periods , sources of data on the early period will include interviews with three women who were active in Toronto softball and basketball leagues in the 1920s . Information ... Found inside – Page 14While batting and running the bases , women in fast - pitch leagues wear helmets , but men do not . Balls , Bats , Facts , and Stats : The first softball league outside the United States was organized in Toronto in 1897. Every four years , the ... Found insideAnd there are gay leagues in New York, Milwaukee, Key West and Toronto, ... The game was the season opener for Philadelphia's Gay Softball League and a good ... Found inside – Page 66... gay bookstores were opened, and lesbian softball leagues were started. In August 1971 Toronto Gay Action hosted the first gay picnic. A few weeks later, ... Found inside – Page 28By the spring of 1943 softball leagues were established in the various compounds , with both ... and he had pitched in the Beaches League in Toronto . Found inside – Page 245In Toronto, the softball league divided into competitive and recreational leagues. Most players are interested in recreational softball. Found inside – Page 97In 1948 , Mr. Fleming , the By 1953 the original Beaches " Father of Softball " in Wyoming , League Toronto was augmented succeeded him . He spent a lot of by a church league and Last time in early '48 traveling about Toronto League . Found inside – Page 88Before joining the AAGPBL, Davis played in the Toronto softball league during the ¡930s. She became the league's first batting champion in ¡943 when she hit ... Found inside – Page 123But soon reports started circulating that Rosen, against Murray's orders, was also playing softball for a team in Toronto. It was all true. Found inside – Page 152This resulted in the founding of the Toronto Girls Baseball League in 2016, ... While softball leagues are plentiful across North America and widely ... Found inside – Page 223They are recruiting agencies because they are beneficial to League membership at ... softball league, with two teams of cigar makers, one team of jewellers, ... Found inside – Page 174Originally in the Toronto Telegram, courtesy the Reed Family. The west diamond had lights installed in 1952 and had been first used for local softball games ... Found inside – Page 27311Each league played one game per week, with a separate league for each Monday ... Toronto and Niagara for Ultimate Frisbee, softball, soccer, flag football ... Found inside – Page 65A Toronto Ladies softball team regularly played in the women's league at Sunnyside Park , and its basketball team challenged the Edmonton Grads for the 1923 Dominion championship . The club also maintained a summer cottage in ... Found inside – Page 136December of 1922, the Toronto-based newspapers the Globe and the Toronto Daily Star ... of that decade such as the Ontario Women's Softball Association, ... Found inside – Page 245softball league in raising consciousness about the need for inclusive and prejudice ... the Toronto Gay Hockey Association (TGHA) is a noncontact, social, ... Found inside – Page 22The feminist perspectives applied to softball illustrate how " feminist sport " can be transformative , consciousness raising , and liberating for many women . Lenskyj's ( 1994 ) case study of the Notso Amazon women's softball league in Toronto ... Found inside – Page 106Factory - sponsored teams and church and youth organizations , among others , provided rational recreation in a variety of sports , like softball , for working - class women.151 Early softball leagues for women were founded in Toronto by such ... Found inside – Page 39Women's softball was so popular at Sunnyside in ers were erected for the opening ... communities Toronto that permanent bleachsponsored teams and leagues. Found inside – Page 17084 Helen Lenskyj, Out of Bounds: Women, Sport and Sexuality (Toronto, 1986). ... interviewed about her memories of wartime industrial Softball leagues, ... Found inside – Page 50It behooves us tary in the B & O's Toronto office , was all to make every effort to keep cars moving married to John Goldie ... of Akron's expert organizers , has had more than a fair share in organizing softball teams and leagues , bowling teams ... Found inside – Page 480As a shortstop, Ilitch played in the minor league system of Major League ... the Detroit Caesars of the American Professional Slow Pitch Softball League, ... Found inside – Page 208In 1925 soccer teams were started in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg (the ... The: Toronto WSA operated a seven-team softball league, with two teams of ... Found inside – Page 247The Saturday Softball League (SSBL) of Milwaukee formed in 1977. ... Milwaukee, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Toronto, Canada, joined, as the inaugural ... Found insideLGBTQ sports leagues also helped forge a queer identity for Toronto ... including the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Gay Softball World Series in 2000, ... They were the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. In Girls of Summer, Lois Browne tells their story - a colorful chronicle of a forgotten league, as recalled by the very women and men who were a part of it all. Found inside – Page 201“Toronto District School Board Guidelines for the Accommodation of Transgender ... “Queering Sport: Lesbian Softball Leagues and the Transgender Challenge. Found insideIn Toronto, the amateur women's softball leagues at Toronto's Sunnyside Stadium drew regular crowds of several thousand. In several years, as we see below, ... Found insideThe women's softball league folded by the early 1960s, and Coxwell Stadium was ... Women's softball teams in Toronto also generated sizable crowds. Found inside – Page 219Both were dropped the following year as their leagues affiliated with organized ... Women's baseball developed rapidly, especially in Toronto and western ... Found insideToronto:Sumach. ScottDixon,K. (2006b). Conclusion: Towards transfeminisms. InK. ... Queeringsport:Lesbian softball leagues and the transgender challenge. Found inside – Page 74... including with Toronto leagues. They were also highly competitive, and in 1931 were semifinalists in the Provincial Women's Softball Union championships ... Found inside – Page 119... baseball leagues during the First World War and immediately thereafter , six women ' s teams formed the Toronto Ladies Major Softball League in 1923 . Found inside – Page 7To some it might seem an unlikely com" Mudcat " Grant , CA , sole practitioner , and cigar - chomping hurler for Bobot & Yurichuk , last year's “ A ” division champions in the Toronto CA Softball League . “ It's a natural , " says Grant , who also ... Found inside – Page 251Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. ... Travers, Ann. “Queering Sport: Lesbian Softball Leagues and the Transgender Challenge. Found inside... Tubby Reiber, and Oreb Hubbell.2 The lack of success plaguing the Toronto ... players in the amateur hardball and softball leagues caused amateur teams ... Found inside – Page 182successful softball careers with amateur teams contending for city, state, ... in three world championship tournaments with the Toronto Sunday Morning Class ... Found inside – Page 4The leagues directly involved in this research are, in Toronto: Notso Amazon Softball League, Pink Turf Soccer, and Women's Hockey Club of Toronto; ... 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