 When the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was unable to continue in 1955, its history and its significance were soon forgotten.Many people in the 1950s thought that women were not supposed to play baseball, so most female athletes competed in other fields of endeavor.Finally, in 1980, former pitcher June Peppas launched a newsletter project to get in touch with friends, teammates, and opponents, that resulted in the league’s first-ever reunion in Chicago, Illinois in 1982.