Dolly konwinski biography

          Dolly was a member of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League spending the majority of her career with the Grand Rapids, MI, Chicks..

          But for Dolly Niemiec Konwinski, baseball was her passion, and her biggest dream came true when she signed her first professional contract while she was still.

        1. In her autobiography,Summertime Dreams, Yes - Girls Can Play Baseball!
        2. Dolly was a member of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League spending the majority of her career with the Grand Rapids, MI, Chicks.
        3. Detailsed information on the Grand Rapids Chicks of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
        4. History Highlight | Grand Rapids Chicks | Dolly Konwinski.

          5. Dolly Niemiec

          American baseball player (1931–2018)

          Baseball player

          Dolly Niemiec (May 27, 1931 – September 22, 2018)[1] was an American baseball player who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League between 1948 and 1952.

          She both batted and threw right-handed.

          Early baseball beginnings

          Dolly learned how to play baseball—like a lot of her peers—from the boys with whom she grew up in her Chicago neighborhood, running around outside getting dirty and bruised just like all the boys were used to doing.

          She earned the nickname "Dolly Gopher" because when playing softball with her father, he would say "Dolly, go for this ball.

          Dolly Konwinski, who played third base for the Grand Rapids Chicks, the league was a dream come true: "I played with the boys in the Chicago neighborhood.

          Go for that ball."

          She recalled how the neighborhood boys would "play in a huge lot behind a factory. We used sickles to cut the grass and cardboard boxes for the bases. Then we put big rocks on them so that they wouldn’t blow away.”.[2] Of the boys she played with she recalls, "their sisters had the most beautifu