Full Text of SR1766 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The Rockford Peaches were a women's professional | 3 | | baseball team that played from 1943 through 1954 in the | 4 | | All-American Girls Professional Baseball League; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, With America's entry into World War II, several | 6 | | major league baseball executives decided to start a new | 7 | | professional baseball league with women players in order to | 8 | | maintain baseball in the public eye while the majority of men | 9 | | were away; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, The Rockford Peaches played their home games at | 11 | | Beyer Stadium on 15th Avenue in Rockford; they won league | 12 | | titles in 1945, 1948, 1949, and 1950; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, Rockford Peaches who were named to all-star teams | 14 | | included Dorothy Kamenshek, Lois Florreich, Dorothy Harrell, | 15 | | Carolyn Morris, Alice Pollitt, Ruth Richard, Rose Gacioch, | 16 | | Eleanor Callow, and Joan Berger; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, The Rockford Peaches were immortalized in the 1992 | 18 | | film, A League of Their Own, which was directed by Penny | 19 | | Marshall and starred Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, | 20 | | Madonna, and Rosie O'Donnell, and gave us the classic line | 21 | | "There's no crying in baseball!"; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, The International Women's Baseball Center, in | 2 | | partnership with Friends of Beyer Stadium, will hold a series | 3 | | of events on May 30 through June 3, 2018 to celebrate the | 4 | | Rockford Peaches' 75th anniversary; therefore, be it
| 5 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH GENERAL | 6 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we declare the week of | 7 | | May 30 to June 5, 2018 as "Rockford Peaches Week" in the State | 8 | | of Illinois; and be it further
| 9 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 10 | | presented to the International Women's Baseball Center, | 11 | | Friends of Beyer Stadium, and the City of Rockford.
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