Muskegon Michigan Lassies Female Baseball Team AAGPBL 1946 Real Photo Postcard

The Muskegon Lassies were a professional women's baseball team competing in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL), as captured in this 1946 team photograph. The AAGPBL was founded in 1943 by Philip K. Wrigley to maintain public interest in baseball during World War II, while male professional players were deployed overseas. The Lassies made their debut in Muskegon, Michigan, for the 1946 season, having previously been the Milwaukee Chicks.