All-American Girls Professional Baseball League rules of play progressively extending the length of the base paths and pitching distance, while decreasing the size of the ball until the final year of play in 1954. For the first five years the circuit used a fastpitch underhand motion, shifted to sidearm in the 1947 season, and overhand pitching began in 1948. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League rules of play The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was a circuit that began to operate in 1943. Since the only organized ball for women in the United States was softball, the league officials created a hybrid game which included features of both fast-pitch
The Indian Princess (play) date in Baltimore. Barker wrote in his letter to Dunlop that the play was subsequently and frequently performed in all the theatres across the country. It was the standard practice in all these productions for the Native American roles to be played by white actors wearing dark makeup. "The Indian Princess" has been cited as the first well-documented case of a play that was originally performed in America being subsequently staged in England. Although records indicate there was a play called "Pocahontas; or the Indian Princess," credited as being adapted by T.A. Cooper, that played The Theatre Royal at Drury