NILES – Thomas Memorial Stadium has seen some great baseball moments, as well as some all-time great baseball names such as Satchel Paige and Ted “Double Duty” Radcliffe.

In the early 1990s, the facility was also under consideration to be a movie site for the shooting of “A League of Their Own.”

On Sunday, the next installment on the historical resume of Thomas Stadium was notched as the some two dozen female baseball players from across the Midwest comprised the Patriot Stars and American Stars in the first-ever, women’s baseball games to be played there.

Players from at least four different states (Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and Ohio) were on the rosters.

Several players also gave the event an international flavor in natives of Japan (Akisa Fukuzawa), Russia (Irina Kovach) and Canada (Natalie Griffiths).

Local players who competed in the games were Katie Hewitt (Stevensville), Kari Williams (Elkhart, Ind.), Kovach (New Carlsile) and Griffiths (South Bend).

A number of the U.S. players are also candidates to USA Baseball’s National Women’s Team, which will be selected later this summer for the Women’s Baseball World Cup in Venezuela.

Several former players (including Lillian Luckey of Niles) from the All American Girls Professional Baseball League were also on hand to meet fans that day.