All-American Girls.(PHOTO ESSAY)(Photograph)

Nine, March, 2007 by Gorman, Bob

In the fall of 2005, the Winthrop University Archives in Rock Hill, South Carolina, acquired the papers of Elizabeth "Lib" Mahon, a 1942 graduate of the college and one of only two South Carolinians to play in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Among the memorabilia, clippings, and papers belonging to this remarkable woman were hundreds of never-before-published personal snapshots of teammates on and off the field.

Mahon (1919-2001), an outstanding high school and college athlete, traveled from Greenville, South Carolina, to LaSalle-Peru, Illinois, in the spring of 1944 to try out for the league. After ten days of intense competition, she was assigned to the Minneapolis Millerettes. A few weeks later she was traded to the Kenosha...

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