Sat 3/16 @ 2PM
Women have played baseball virtually since the game was invented, but the professionals have almost always been men. The best-known exception were the leagues that were founded during World War II when many able-bodied men were overseas fighting.
But there were earlier examples. Alta Weiss (1890-1964) from Holmes and Tuscarawas counties, Ohio pitched at minor and major league exhibition games throughout Ohio and Kentucky to pay for medical school, where she was also a groundbreaker – the only woman in her medical school graduating class at Ohio State University (then without the “the.”
You Can’t Play Ball in a Skirt is a one-woman play about Weiss, which will be performed at the Baseball Heritage Museum at League Park in honor of Women’s History Month. Tickets are $10 which includes admission to the museum.
Cleveland, OH 44103