April 22, 1947. (Ed Maloney/AP) Also in 1947: Chicago Cardinals owner Charles Bidwill died of pneumonia, leaving the team to his widow Violet Bidwill. She became the first female owner of an NFL team.

Betsy Jochum’s 1940s baseball ... Chicago Cubs owner Philip Wrigley—allowed women like Jochum a brief, 11-year window in which to radically extend the acceptable range of female behavior.

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Violet Bidwill moved the team to St. Louis, where her second husband Walter Wolfner was from. Though she, too, later died suddenly, the Bidwill family still retains ownership of the team because ...