Philip K. Wrigley

Chicago Cubs owner Philip Wrigley founded the women’s league to keep the sport going while the male players were serving overseas.

… owner and chewing gum magnate Philip K. Wrigley. He started the league out of a concern that men’s major league baseball would suffer when players were called for military service. The “Belles of the Ball Game,” however, delivered such a high level of play that, at the league’s peak in…