While the 1992 film A League of Their Own introduced contemporary audiences to the WWII-era All American Girls Professional Baseball League, women's baseball actually began with the creation of the Vassar College team in 1866. Women were paid to play ball less than a year later, and a surprising number of women were included on 20th-century men's teams. Line Drives and Lipstick: The Untold Story of Women's Baseball documents this forgotten side of America's pastime with images and objects selected from one of the nation's largest collections of women's baseball memorabilia.

A program of ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance and the National Endowment for the Arts