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A collage of six Cuban players who were members of the All-American Girls Baseball League.
Clockwise from top left with seasons in the league in parenthesis: Isora del Castillo (1949-51), Mirtha Marrero (1948-53), Isabel Alvarez (1949-54), Luisa Gallegos (1948-49), Migdalia Perez (1948-54) and Gloria Ruiz (1948).
According to Cuban Ball, &ldquo;Women were involved with Cuban baseball from the very beginning. First as fans and later as participants in women&rsquo;s teams.&rdquo;
At the Cuban Cultural Center of New York&rsquo;s Aug. 20&nbsp;congress on Cuban baseball history, Leslie Heaphy, an assistant history professor at Kent State University and author of Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball, gave a presentation on the history of women in Cuban baseball.
Isora del Castillo is the only women enshrined in the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame, having been elected in 1997.
