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I love these all so, so much! Especially the Merry Widows baseball club (makes me think of that one Kate Chopin story about the woman so excited to live her life once her husband is dead (so she thinks)

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I love that story!! I remember first reading it in high school and thinking, "oh yes, this is my stuff right here." I haven't found all that much about the Merry Widows Baseball Club, but I put everything I know about them here:

https://nwbaseballhistory.substack.com/p/the-merry-widows-baseball-club

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I haven’t investigated this team, which, sadly, I can’t figure out how to share a picture of here, but I do love their name. They were from Port Ludlow… The Unknowns.

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