The Owls Club was a Black women’s softball team formed the late 1930s in Seattle. The Owls won the first women’s Washington State Softball Championship in 1938, playing at Sick’s Stadium, today the site of Rainier Avenue Lowe’s. The team, renamed the Brown Bombers, won the championship again in 1939. Left-handed pitcher Lillian Brown struck out twelve batters on the Manette team in the final championship game at the Civic Field, the site of the current Memorial Stadium.

Here, nine members of the Owls Club pose in their team uniforms near two parked cars on a field, perhaps after practice or a game.

Caption information source: “ 130 years ago Black Baseball ruled the day at Garfield Park and the Central District” by Stephanie Johnson-Tolliver, May 22, 2019, Africatown Community Land Trust website, https://www.africatownlandtrust.org/
Caption information sources: “Doghouse team blows up in Ninth,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 29. 1938. P. 1; “Pacifics play in Spokane tonight,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 29, 1939, p. 15