Wood himself stated to interviewer Joan Whaley, for an article published in Baseball Digest in May 1981, that he signed with the Boston Bloomer Girls at age 15. That he started playing with the Bloomer Girls in KC is likely. On page 157 of Glory of Their Times, the basis I suspect for later claims that he joined the Kansas City Bloomer Girls, Wood tells Ritter that he joined a TOURING Bloomer Girls club at the end of 1906.
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