Female Cubs Exec Changed the Ballgame-- Part 1: Margaret "Midge" Donahue, Introduced Season Tickets

From the July 22, 2013, Chicago Tribune "Focus" by John Owens.

A person I'd never heard of before this. Margaret Manning of far northwest suburb Huntley has a "Golden Pass." It is fifty years old, signed by long-ago heads of Major League Baseball and offers free access to any game in any stadium in the National and American leagues. It is for her aunt Margaret "Midge" Donahue's "long and meritorius" service with the Chicago Cubs.

She is recognized as "a groundbreaking baseball executive" and her fame will grow with 2014's 100th anniversary of Wrigley Field.

She worked for the team from 1919 to 1958 and was the first female front-office executive in Major League Baseball who was not an owner. She was an innovator who introduced the concept of season tickets in 1929, selling tickets at off-site locations and offering reduced ticket prices for children under the age of 12.

Quite a Woman. --Cooter