"Music and baseball don't mix ordinarily but music and women mix." Thus Promoter Eddie Stumpf, after one of the strangest doubleheaders in baseball history. At Milwaukee's Borchert Field, General Manager Stumpf's Milwaukee Chicks had met their Minneapolis rivals in the All-American Girls Professional Ball League after a one-hour prelude of classical music (Grieg's Heart Wounds, Ravel's Pavane pour tine Infante etc. etc.) by the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
Hot-dog and pop sales came to a hushed pause during the concert. Shushed by indignantly reverent ushers, the fidgety fans sat in embarrassed silence, stretched...
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