Crim: Northeast Missouri native still celebrating, promoting baseball as sport for young girls and women

By Don Crim, Senior Columnist | January 27, 2025
Gloria McCloskey Rogers, who grew up in Edina, Mo., played in the All-American Girls Baseball League with the Rockford Peaches and later returned to Northeast Missouri as a teacher and a coach. Rogers, who is approaching her 90th birthday, lives in Texas and continues promoting baseball as a sport for young girls and women. | Photo courtesy Gloria McCloskey Rogers

QUINCY — Gloria McCloskey Rogers doesn’t act like a woman who will celebrate her 90th birthday in less than four months. When she’s not watching over two great-grandchildren, ages 1 and 3, at a home she shares with her daughter in Plano, Texas, you may find Rogers jetting around the country, appearing on podcasts and…

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