The Schick Family Scrapbook

Yolande "YoYo" (Teillet) Schick

Winnipeg (St.Vital), Manitoba

(1927 - 2006)

 

All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL)

Catcher and Outfield

 

Fort Wayne Daisies, Indiana, 1945

Grand Rapids Chicks, Michigan, 1946

Grand Rapids Chicks, Michigan, 1947

Kenosha Comets, Wisconsin, 1947

 

YOLANDE (TEILLET) SCHICK (front row, far left) sits on the steps of a house with pitcher Audrey (Haine) Daniels (back row, far right), both from Winnipeg, Manitoba. The women are all teammates from the Grand Rapids Chicks of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The photo was probably taken in 1946 or 1947 when "Yo Yo" played catcher and outfield for the Chicks.

Spring training camp in Cuba. AAGPBL Grand Rapids Chicks coach John Rawlings (back row, far left) took the team, with catcher/outfielder Yolande (Teillet) Schick, (front row, second from right), to Havana, Cuba in 1947 for spring training camp. Curious boys peek at the team over the hedges.

14. Photograph used with the permission of the AAGPBL. Group shot with signatures.

15. Yolande Schick (second from right) cheers with Fort Wayne Daisies teammates I 1945. Photograph used with the permission of the AAGPBL.

Cuban Spring Training: Coach John Rawlings speaks to the Grand Rapids Chicks during 1947 spring training in Havana, Cuba. Winnipeg's Yolande (Teillet) Schick listens with one hand on her hip (back row, far right), while Cuban fans look on from the stands.

YOLANDE (TEILLET) SCHICK (front row, far left) on the steps of a house with pitcher Audrey (Haine) Daniels (back row, far right), both from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Yolande (Teillet) Schick (right) stands with friend and teammate Audrey "Dimples" (Haine) Daniels, (left) in their Grand Rapids Chicks AAGPBL uniforms. Both women were from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Catcher and pitcher: Considered the best underhand pitcher in the league, Connie "The Polish Rifle" Wisniewski (right) stands with friend and catcher Yolande (Teillet) Schick in Detroit, Michigan. They played together on the Grand Rapids Chicks (AAGPBL) in 1946 and 1947.

Card night. Yolande (Teillet) Schick with an AAGPBL teammate. The photo is signed, "Love Bets," so this may well be Betty (Carveth) Dunn, an All-Star pitcher from Edmonton, Alberta who played during the 1945 season on the Fort Wayne Daisies with Schick. There were some 60 Canadian women who joined the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in its 12-years history.

Catcher Yolande (Teillet) Schick (second from left) with teammates from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Schick played for the Fort Wayne Daisies (1945), the Grand Rapids Chicks (1946 and1947), and the Kenosha Comets (1947).

Three friends from the Grand Rapids Chicks (AAGPBL), Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1947. All the girls on the team had baseball nicknames. Yolande (Teillet) Schick (in the middle) was called, "YoYo."

Hand on heart for the anthem. Yolande (Teillet) Schick (third from the left) stands with Grand Rapids Chicks teammates for the playing of the American national anthem at a 1947 game. Many players didn't like wearing skirts for uniforms which offered no protection sliding in baseball.

The St. Vital Tigerettes: Yolande (Teillet) Schick (Row 2, far left) played for the St.Vital Tigerettes in Winnipeg, Manitoba when she was scouted to join the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1945. She was 17-years-old when she went to play in the United States.

Signed team photograph of Yolande (Teillet) "YoYo" Schick posing with her catcher's mitt. Schick was catcher for the Fort Wayne Daisies in 1945.

Team pride: Yolande (Teillet) Schick's team photo from 1945 when she played catcher for the Fort Wayne Daisies based in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

GPBL BASEBALL CARD: Yolande "YoYo" (Teillet) Schick's official baseball card as a catcher/outfielder in the AllAmerican Girls Professional Baseball League from 1945 through 1947.

The back of Yolande "YoYo" (Teillet) Schick's official baseball card of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

SIGNED BASEBALL AND MOVIE MUSIC: This copy of a page from the Schick family scrapbook features a ball signed by Yolande (Teillet) Schick and a CD of music from A League of Their Own, the 1992 Hollywood hit written about the players in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

WRISTWATCHES AND PINS were some of the souvenirs the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) gave its players. The watches and pin (above) belonged to Winnipeg catcher/outfielder Yolande (Teillet) Schick from her time in the League between 1945 and 1947.

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