Ogden women’s baseball tribute game: Dolls top Whoopie Girls in front of nearly 3,000 fans
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- Ogden Whoopie Girls catcher Jamie Hamblin, right, fields the ball in a play near home plate with Junction City Dolls player Brittany McCray (34) during a women’s baseball charity game Monday, July 11, 2022, at Lindquist Field in Ogden.
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- Ogden Whoopie Girls player Cierra Mitchell winds to pitch during a women’s baseball charity game Monday, July 11, 2022, at Lindquist Field in Ogden.
The Ogden Whoopie Girls and Junction City Dolls hit the dirt at Lindquist Field one more time Monday night, playing the second of two charity baseball games as a tribute to the movie “A League of Their Own” — this time in front of 2,864 fans.
The Dolls, winners of the July 2 game by a wide margin, were victorious again, this time claiming a 10-2 win and, as far as we know, no children ate either of the lineup cards and nobody was chastised too vehemently for missing the cutoff on a throw from the outfield.
The game, organized by the Ogden Raptors, also raised nearly $4,000 for LiveOn, which is the state of Utah’s official, multi-agency, public-private suicide prevention effort. Combined with the Raptors’ June 8 “LiveOn” night, the club has raised more than $11,000 for the organization.
The July 2 women’s game raised more than $13,000 for Hope Squad, a Utah-based organization aimed at teen suicide prevention.
Two teams of women tried out in early June and held several practices leading up to the two games this month. Pitchers threw overhand, many with some steam and with a good repertoire of offspeed pitches, and the teams played on the regulation baseball field — 90-foot bases and a pitching mound of 60 feet, 6-inches.
“A League of Their Own” tells a fictionalized story about two sisters joining the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which was a real sports league from 1943-54 launched during World War II. The two tribute games emerged from an idea to honor the 30th anniversary of the film’s debut on July 1, 1992.