Shakeia Taylor: Home team may have lost, but record-setting Chicago Red Stars game at Wrigley Field was a win for women’s sports

CHICAGO — On July 1, 1943, Wrigley Field hosted a large Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) rally.

The event included a doubleheader with a WAAC softball game at 6 p.m. between teams from Fort Sheridan and Camp Grant near Rockford, Ill., followed by an all-star baseball game at 8:30 p.m. with players from the four original All-American Girls Professional Baseball League teams (the Racine Belles, Kenosha Comets, South Bend Blue Sox and Rockford Peaches).

To help light the field for the later game, three banks of temporary lights were installed on poles situated behind home plate, first base and third