[1][3] In 1951, the Blue Sox hired a new manager, Karl Winsch, a former pitching prospect of the Philadelphia Phillies and husband of Jean Faut, the team's ace pitcher.

Just before the regular season ended, he suspended the flashy Charlene Pryer for not going in to pinch-run quickly when asked, which created an uproar after the game.

As a result, Barbara Hoffman, Elizabeth Mahon, Jane Stoll and Shirley Stovroff, among others, quit the team in support of Pryer.

[7] In 1954 Froning hit .234 with three home runs and 44 RBI, tying for fifth in stolen bases (26), while managing to place second for the most outfield assists (20), being surpassed only by Kalamazoo Lassies' Jenny Romatowski (24).

[1][8] Once the league disbanded in 1954, Mary Froning was one of the players selected by former Fort Wayne Daisies manager Bill Allington to play in the national touring team known as the All-Americans.

The Allington All-Stars played 100 games between 1954 and 1958, each booked in a different town, against male teams, while traveling over 10,000 miles in the manager's station wagon and a Ford Country Sedan.

Besides Froning, the All-Americans included Joan Berger, Gloria Cordes, Jeanie Descombes, Gertrude Dunn, Betty Foss, Jean Geissinger, Katie Horstman, Maxine Kline, Dolores Lee, Magdalen Redman, Ruth Richard, Jean Smith, Dorothy Schroeder, Dolly Vanderlip and Joanne Weaver, among others.

[9] In 1956, Froning became a stewardess for American Airlines along with her twin sister, Martha, until she married Tom O'Meara in 1958 and moved to Madison, Wisconsin.