Joe Wood
Wood says that the National Bloomers Girls played a game against his Ness City, Kansas, town team in the fall of 1906 and after the game Logan Galbreath offered him a contract for the last three weeks of the Bloomers' season at $21 per week. "These were not the Boston Bloomer Girls," he says. Wood adds that there were two other men on the team, a third baseman they called Lady Madison and a pitcher called Lady Waddell whose real name was Compton. They wore wigs, but not Wood. He also singles out Ruth Egan as the "one real good [woman] player" on the team. She played first base with a catcher's mitt. The girls sold postcards of the team. It's possible that Wood played later with the Boston Bloomers, of course, but it doesn't seem likely he wouldn't have mentioned that fact to Ritter.
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