Events

Join us for these upcoming IWBC events!

For women’s and girls’ baseball events worldwide, visit the Women in Baseball Week calendar.


Chasing A Dream – The Story of Girls and Women in Baseball: Exhibit at Rockford University
July – December, 2024
Rockford, IL

This exhibition showcases the contributions that women have made to baseball, both on and off the playing field from the late 1850s through today, using reproduced images as well as rare archival and three-dimensional artifacts to tell the story. Chasing A Dream runs from mid-July through December, 2024 at Rockford University’s Howard Colman Library. Visit Colman Library for current hours.

If you visited the exhibit, please complete this brief survey and log your attendance. Reach out any time with questions about the exhibit or women in baseball to [email protected].


SPoRT Makeup: Beauty, Bubbly, and Business
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Rockford, IL

Join SPoRT Makeup for a fabulous afternoon of pampering, networking, business, and inspiration at Beauty, Bubbly & Business! Your favorite empowering networking event is back!! Join us for the 3rd annual Beauty, Bubbly, & Business at Prairie Street Brewing Co. 3:30-6:30pm. This is the perfect opportunity to mingle, make connections, get a new professional headshot, and have a great time. More information here.


Women in Baseball Conference
September 20 – 22, 2024
Rockford, IL and Online

Join us September 20-22, 2024 for the 6th annual Women in Baseball Conference sponsored by IWBC and SABR and hosted by Rockford University. The full schedule and registration information can be found at sabr.org/women-in-baseball-conference/. See you in September!


SPoRT Apparel & Collectibles: World War II Days
September 28 – 29, 2024
Rockford, IL

Find SPoRT Makeup and SPoRT Apparel and Collectibles at Midway Village World War II Days. This military re-enactment is known to be the largest in the Midwest and draws thousands of visitors yearly to the Rockford region and the museum grounds. More information at World War II Days.


Rockford University Forum Marquee Event: “Design, Luck, and the Rockford Peaches: All Things Are Connected”
October 23, 2024
Rockford, IL

Barbara Gregorich, author of the 1993 book, Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball, will speak on how and why she decided to research women baseball players and how her research for the historically significant, but always elusive, Maud Nelson led her across fifty years and half of the US—inevitably culminating with Rose Gacioch and the magnificent Rockford Peaches. 7:00pm in Fisher Chapel. More information at Forum Series.