The Women: After It All Ended
After the last game of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1954, the women received their letters saying the league was over. Most of the players did not want the league to end, but they had to move on with their lives when the men returned form war. Many of the players turned to other sports after the league folded, also became Physical Education teachers and coached women's sports teams. Once the men came home form World War II, the national priority was to find them jobs. Two million women were forced to give up their jobs, but many women were reluctant to do so. Many Americans believed that it was time for women to return home and focus on rebuilding their family life. Although, the United States government argued that women who had not been so invaluable to the war effort should be allowed to continue earning their own living. During this debate, propaganda was used to lure women back to domesticity. There was also a Selective Service Act that ruled war veterans should take priority over wartime workers. After that the All American Girls' Professional Baseball league became a casualty of the country's peacetime prosperity (Galt, Margot 87).