Sports Archives - Infinite Women

Championship golfer and tennis player

In 1949, she became the first African-American woman elected to Cleveland City Council.

Polish-American runner named the greatest woman athlete of the first half of the 20th century by the Helm Athletic Foundation (1951)

Renowned softball pitcher who was inducted into the first class of the Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame in 1976.

A long-time employee of Cleveland’s Recreation Department who worked “to help children to form good social patterns of behavior through recreation.”

American equestrienne, daredevil rider, vaudeville performer, and from 1929 to 1966 the owner and operator of Parker’s Ranch in Ohio

In 1956, Betty Cuthbert won three Olympic gold medals, the first Australian to do so.

American basketball champion, child welfare advocate and lawyer

Trailblazing African American entrepreneur in Ohio

American softball player