Vancouver-born Helen Callaghan will become the first woman individually inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. 👏
TORONTO – Casey Candaele never made much of it growing up, the way his mother Helen moved so athletically around a diamond as she taught him how the game, her occasional mentions of playing ball back in the day.
She’ll be the first woman inducted individually – in 1998, all 69 Canadian women to play in the AAGPBL, including Helen’s older sister Marge, were enshrined as a group. Part of the reason for the fascination then was because the AAGPBL had essentially been forgotten as the women who played in it moved on from the game and started their lives.
There were a few old gloves around the house and a few pictures, but nothing that screamed out, “you need to look into this,” says Kelly. Once he finished university, the history grad took a historian’s approach into researching both his mom and the league, finding loads of video at the national archives in Washington, D.C., from old news reels that used to play in theatres before movies.
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