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The All - American Girls ___MASK14___ ___MASK82___ was a women ' s professional ___MASK82___ founded by Philip K . Wrigley which existed from 1943 to 1954 . Over 600 women played in the league . In 1948 , league attendance peaked over 900 , 000 spectators in attendance . The Rockford Peaches won a league - best four championships while playing in the AAGPBL . For most of the league ' s ___MASK35___ , manager Bill Allington coached different teams and led the league in career wins as a manager . The 1992 ___MASK69___ picture " A League of Their Own " tells a fictionalized account of one of the league ' s teams . Michigan is a ___MASK90___ in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States . The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word " mishigamaa ", meaning " large ___MASK77___ " or " large lake ". Michigan is the tenth most populous of the 50 United States , with the 11th most extensive total area ( the largest ___MASK90___ by total area east of the Mississippi River ). Its capital is Lansing , and its largest city is Detroit . Chicago ( or ), officially ___MASK99___ of Chicago , is the third - most populous city in the United States , and the fifth - most populous city in North America . With over 2 . 7 million residents , it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States , and the ___MASK78___ of Cook County . The Chicago metropolitan area , often referred to as Chicagoland , has nearly 10 million people and is the third - largest in the U . S . The Kalamazoo Lassies were a ___MASK19___ who played from 1950 through 1954 in the All - American Girls ___MASK14___ ___MASK82___ . The ___MASK19___ represented Kalamazoo , Michigan . Home games were initially played at Lindstrom Field , but later games were played at the Catholic Athletic Association Field , now the Soisson - Rapacz field . Kalamazoo uniforms were white ( home ) and gold ( away ) with dark green numbers , belt , socks , and cap . A ___MASK98___ of Their Own is a 1992 American sports comedy - ___MASK72___ film that tells a fictionalized account of the real - life All - American Girls Professional Baseball ___MASK98___ ( AAGPBL ). Directed by Penny Marshall , the film stars Geena Davis , Tom Hanks , Madonna , and Lori Petty . The ___MASK58___ was written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel from a story by Kelly Candaele and Kim Wilson . A ___MASK78___ is an administrative center , seat of ___MASK47___ , or capital city of a county or civil parish . The term is used in the United States , Canada , Romania , China and Taiwan . In the United Kingdom and Ireland , county towns have a similar function . Philip ___MASK65___ Wrigley ( ___MASK31___ 5 , 1894  April 12 , 1977 ), sometimes also called P . K . or Phil , was an American chewing gum manufacturer and executive in Major League Baseball , inheriting both those roles as the quiet son of his much more flamboyant father , William Wrigley , Jr .. In 1912 , Wrigley founded the Lincoln Park Gun Club with Oscar F . Mayer , Sewell Avery , and other prominent Chicagoans . A U . S . ___MASK90___ is a constituent political entity of the United States of America . There are 50 states , which are bound together in a union with each other . Each ___MASK90___ holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory , and shares its sovereignty with the United States ___MASK21___ . Due to the shared sovereignty between each ___MASK90___ and the ___MASK21___ , Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the ___MASK90___ in which they reside . State citizenship and residency are flexible , and no government approval is required to move between states , except for persons covered by certain types of court orders ( e . g ., paroled convicts and children of divorced spouses who are sharing custody ). In the United States , a ___MASK5___ statistical area ( MSA ) is a ___MASK52___ region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the area . Such regions are neither legally incorporated as a city or town would be , nor are they legal administrative divisions like counties or separate entities such as states . As such , the precise definition of any given ___MASK5___ area can vary with the source . A typical ___MASK5___ area is centered on a ___MASK63___ large city that wields substantial influence over the region ( e . g ., Chicago or Atlanta ). However , some ___MASK5___ areas contain more than one large city with no ___MASK63___ municipality holding a substantially dominant position ( e . g ., Dallas  Fort Worth metroplex , Norfolk - Virginia Beach ( Hampton Roads ), Riverside  San Bernardino ( Inland Empire ) or Minneapolis  Saint Paul ). ___MASK74___ is a bat - and - ___MASK25___ played between two teams of nine players each , who take turns batting and fielding . A ___MASK3___ is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population . It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population . The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses ; other common censuses include agriculture , business , and traffic censuses . The United Nations defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as " individual enumeration , universality within a defined territory , simultaneity and defined periodicity ", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every 10 years . United Nations recommendations also cover ___MASK3___ topics to be collected , official definitions , classifications and other useful information to co - ordinate international practice . Kalamazoo is a ___MASK64___ in the southwest region of the U . S . state of Michigan . It is the ___MASK78___ of Kalamazoo County . As of the 2010 ___MASK3___ , Kalamazoo had a total population of 74 , 262 . Kalamazoo is the major ___MASK64___ of the Kalamazoo - Portage Metropolitan Statistical Area , which has a population of 335 , 340 as of 2015 . Kalamazoo is equidistant from the major American cities of Chicago and Detroit , each fewer than 150 miles away . A ___MASK89___ ( short for zoological ___MASK97___ or ___MASK75___ and also called an animal park or menagerie ) is a facility in which animals are confined within enclosures , displayed to the public , and in which they may also breed . The Rockford Peaches were a women ' s ___MASK14___ ___MASK33___ who played from through in the All - American Girls Professional Baseball League . A founding member , the team represented Rockford , Illinois . Detroit is the most populous ___MASK64___ in the U . S . state of Michigan , the fourth - largest ___MASK64___ in the Midwest and the largest ___MASK64___ on the United States  Canada ___MASK6___ . It is the seat of Wayne County , the most populous county in the state .