Eleanor Callow

All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

Left fielder

Born: August 8, 1927 (age 89)
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Batted: Switch hitter

Threw: Right

debut

1947

Last appearance

1954

Teams

Peoria Redwings (1947)
Chicago Colleens (1948)
Rockford Peaches (1948–1954)

Career highlights and awards

Three-time AAGPBL Championship (1948–1950)
Four-time AAGPBL All-Star Team (1951–1954)
All-time leader in home runs (55) and triples (60)
Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display
Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)
Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame Induction (1998)
Manitoba Softball Hall of Fame Induction (1998)

Eleanor Callow Squirt (born August 8, 1927) is a former Canadian female left fielder who played from 1947 through 1954 for three teams of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Callow was a switch-hitter and threw right-handed. She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Women have been playing professional baseball since the early 1930s, when Chattanooga Lookouts pitcher Jackie Mitchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in succession, during an exhibition game against the New York Yankees in 1931.

The AAGPBL was a league that began to operate in 1943 in cities located on or near Lake Michigan. The main promoter was Philip K. Wrigley, owner of the Chicago Cubs, who worried about the viability of male professional baseball players during World War II decided to establlish an alternate attraction. The league folded after the end of the 1954 season. Over the years the rules, equipment, and style of play in the league changed from softball to baseball (e.g., the size of the ball at the beginning was 12" in circumference, but at the end it was 9 ¹⁄₄"). Eleven girls from Manitoba played in the league, including Callow. All of them received honorary inductions into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988), the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame (1998), and the Manitoba Softball Hall of Fame (1998).

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