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Posted By: runscott

I have had very little luck researching Bloomer Girls teams - I have a scorecard with two 1911 Bloomer Girl games played in Iowa, first names for all players, and can't find any evidence of such a team anywhere on the internet. I did; however, locate some microfilm mentioning games the team had played in various parts of Iowa.

Basically, there were a LOT of these teams. The one I'm researching was called the "College Bloomer Girls" on one of the scorecards, which implies to me that maybe it wasn't uncommon for a group of 'athletic' women in school to get together during the summers and play ball for some extra cash - this means there could have been literally hundreds of such teams around the country, temporary as their organization might have been. And yes, they call could have been posing for photos at various times.