MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- "Milwaukee Chicks replica uniform. And I brought this down to show y'all, just to show you what the replica kind of looks like, the AAGPBL shield logo," South Bend History Museum Registrar Catherine Page-Vanore says.

"For a lot of these women, it was a dream come true to be able to play baseball professionally," Wisconsin Historical Society Image Researcher John Nondorf says.

"They played together, and they did all this not because they could make it rich," Page-Vanore says. "Not because they would have wild adventures, although I'm sure they did. They did it for the love of the game. And they had this incredible baseball experience that they kind of forged for themselves out of mystery, for lack of a better term. It had never been done before."

"Ultimately, the Chicks wound up not doing super well in Milwaukee," Page-Vanore says. "And they wound up relocating to Grand Rapids, where they spent the remainder of their time. The Grand Rapids Chicks."

"Well, the Milwaukee team, they didn't get the coverage that these other teams in smaller cities got," Nondorf says. "They really didn't have support from the newspapers. In fact, when they won the championship, the Milwaukee Journal ran two paragraphs."

CBS 58 Sports Director Lance Allan says here at the History Museum in South Bend, Indiana, they are preserving the spirit of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, keeping it alive.

"When people come to our museum, and they hear these stories for the first time, they're like, 'Wow!'" Page-Vanore says.

"It definitely started opening doors," Nondorf says. "And made it possible for women to play more organized sports in college and professionally. Like today, we have professional volleyball and hockey and basketball. And there's going to be a new women's baseball league starting up next year."

"I think they might have had to sew the patches on themselves," Page-Vanore says. "They often look hand sewn. Even the ones in our collection for other teams."