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Dolly Niemiec (born 27 May 1931) in Chicago, IL (nickname Dolly Gopher) 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" as when playing softball with her father, he would say "Dolly, go for this ball. Go for that ball." She recalls 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.”. Of the boys she played with she recalls, "their sisters had the most beautiful dolls.I had the most beautiful bats and balls." One day, when she was 15 years old, Dolly's father came across a newspaper article about tryouts in a women's baseball league. Her first reaction however was "girls don't play baseball." It wasn't that she believed that girls ''couldn't'' play baseball, she just wasn't aware of any who ''did''. Despite this, she came along to the field and was "amazed" at how many women she saw there. She said that she "thought () was the only girl in the city who played baseball." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dolly Niemiec」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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