NGBL and AAGPBL players were "recruited" to the IGBL with letters from Darling in October 1952.
Enough players from the NGBL and AAGPBL responded affirmatively to Darling's winter ball proposal to constitute four teams.
The NGBL was well represented in the IGBL with outstanding players such as Beckmann, Borowy, Brunke, G.
As noted, Frank Darling, owner of the NGBL Music Maids, was the IGBL president.
Their core was from the Chicago Queens, the dominant team in the NGBL. The other teams looked fairly evenly matched on paper.
Of the International Girls Baseball League's premature folding, NGBL star Freda Savona said, "I just can't understand it, ...
The NGBL dropped two teams in 1953 and another in 1954 after which it also came to an end.