This was one of my recent pickups and seemed like a good card for this series. Cards with nonplayers on the field would occasionally come up in the 1950s and 1960s. Men in suits were presumably team executives, maybe sportswriters. Other men dressed more casually might be grounds crew or trainers. However I don't remember another card from this era with a woman on the field. This photo was taken at Seals Stadium in San Francisco. Not sure who she might be - stadium employee maybe, or member of the media? The Cubs did have a female front office executive at the time, they might have been the only team with one. Margaret Donahue was a great baseball and business mind who many think would have gotten the Cubs to a World Series if she had been the GM. I see no indication that she went on the road with the team, though. Any idea who the woman in the pink skirt might be?
Interesting. I don't think I've ever seen this card before either.
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