- Announcer: Come on, make it fun! Put it in here, you can do it!
- Jacqueline Mattson Baumgartner: Once I played professional baseball, I would have given anything to continue to play that. Playing was a joy. Playing was my inner joy. The league first started in 1943 and it lasted until 1954. There was a lot of camaraderie, there was a lot of togetherness. The first time that I put that uniform on, it was like, "I'm gonna play ball in this?" I mean, it was a big skirt. So I took tucks; I took two in the front and two in the back. My first game I caught, there was a pitcher who threw what we call a screwball. I was nervous and excited at the same time. After about the third inning, I started to realize, "Hey, we're playing a good game, and she's pitching very well, and isn't this great?" [laughs]

[dreamy music]