Timeline of women's sports in the United States Lyle Alberga, was the first of three women to play Negro league baseball, and thus the first woman to play as a regular on an American big-league professional baseball team. 1954 - The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League played its last season. 1955 - The first LPGA championship was held. 1959 - Arlene Pieper became the first woman to officially finish a marathon in the United States when she finished the Pikes Peak Marathon. 1960 - Mary McGee earns a FIM license and becomes the first official female motorcycle racer in the United States. 1961 - The WIBC Queens all-female
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