With the prospect of making the $60 per week that was being paid to the members of the established teams, which was a vast sum of money then, the two Greenville girls decided to try their hand in the new circuit, obtaining full-time jobs in the AAGPBL for the 1944 season. Thompson was assigned to the Milwaukee Chicks, while Mahon joined the Minneapolis Millerettes, becoming the only South Carolina ballplayers in AAGPBL history. Mahon died in 2001 at the age of 82. In her rookie season, Thompson posted a 15--12 record and a 2.88 earned run average as part of a pitching rotation that included Connie Wisniewski (23--10, 2.23) and Josephine Kabick (26--19, 2.66).
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