Maybelle Blair consulted on LeagueOnPrime, and it inspired her to come out publicly for the first time.
Maybelle Blair, an original pro player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League , had never planned to come out. So it was a surprise to everyone — the 95-year-old included — when she found herself on stage during a press tour for Amazon Prime's new, telling a room full of people that she was gay."I hid for 75, 85 years," she told the crowd."And this is actually, basically the first time I've ever come out.
Two months later, Blair can remember the rush of relief and joy she felt when she said those words."I said to myself, 'If I can help one or two little girls, that's good,'" she tells POPSUGAR. Blair remembers feeling isolated because of her sexuality up until she was recruited into the groundbreaking AAGPBL during its famous run in the 1940s. It was then that she realized there were other women like her.
Blair caught the eye of a scout while playing softball in southern California. He asked if she wanted to play pro baseball in the AAGPBL, a women's league formed when the majority of able American men were drafted for World War II."Oh, you're out of your mind," she remembers saying. Her mother was against it, too, until the scout told them Blair would be making $55 a week — more than Blair's father was making at the time, she says.
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