The South Bend Blue Sox are a women's team in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The team represents the City of South Blend, Indiana and it was founded in 1943.
Their uniform is a light cornflower blue dress that has three blue buttons and the team logo on the front, the player number in the back, and the logo of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League on the left sleeve. Along with it they wear a blue belt, a blue wool cap with a white SB insignia, blue satin shorts with thee blue buttons on the sides, blue stirrups with white knee-socks underneath, and black cleats.
Their crest consists of an adaptation of the city of South Bend seal. It features a bigger blue circle with a yellow tracing that reads in yellow letters “City of South Blend, Indiana”, and a smoller yellow inner circle with a blue drawing of a flag on top of a shining sun above clouds.
Known roster[]
- Jo Deluca [transferred from the Rockford Peaches]
Trivia[]
- The team is based on the real South Bend Blue Sox, a women's professional baseball team that played from 1943 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.[1]
- Unlike in the TV series, where the South Bend Blue Sox are the winners, the Racine Belles were the actual winners of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League first championship.[2]