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At the sixth annual SABR/IWBC Women in Baseball Conference on September 21, 2024, Ryan Woodward delivered a research presentation on “She Played Here: Mapping History on the Women’s Baseball Heritage Trail.”

Years in the making, the Women’s Baseball Heritage Trail (WBHT) is an online mapping project highlighting the playing fields, memorials, exhibits, and other spaces honoring women’s contributions to the game. Inspired by core values of librarianship that include access, preservation, and lifelong learning, the idea of creating a central resource detailing all things related to women in baseball began to take shape and was launched in July 2022. This presentation proposal will highlight the WBHT’s criteria for inclusion, the research involved, as well as the projected and reported impact for its users. The geographical destinations as well as the online content meet a wide range of tailored needs, from academic scholars and researchers to casual baseball fans eager to explore women’s sports history. The primary goal of the Women’s Baseball Heritage Trail is to unify the women’s baseball community worldwide - serving as a launchpad for exploring history that may have previously been confined to local interest.

Ryan Woodward created the inaugural Women in Baseball Week in 2017. He continues to develop projects commemorating women in baseball, including the induction of former AAGPBL player Anna May Hutchison into the Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame, Class of 2020. Ryan is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and the International Women’s Baseball Center and served on the IWBC Board of Directors for six years. He is currently the project coordinator for the IWBC and lives in Rockford, IL.

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