Professional Baseball Player. A right handed pitcher, she spent part of three seasons in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Rasised in western Pennsylvania, she was signed by the Muskegon Lassies in 1948 but had her season cut short by finger injuries. In 1949 she moved with the team to Illinois where they became the Springfield Sallies; she was to pitch in 1949 and again in 1950 and had a 3 win 2 loss record with a .231 batting average when her season and career were ended by further injuries. Returning to Pennsylvania, she worked for Lafayette Manor while playing softball in West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. In later years she was to serve for five years as a Dominican Missionary Sister. She was part of the 1988 mass induction of the AAGPBL and its players into the Baseball Hall of Fame; the league's story was told in the 1992 feature "A League of Their Own".
Professional Baseball Player. A right handed pitcher, she spent part of three seasons in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Rasised in western Pennsylvania, she was signed by the Muskegon Lassies in 1948 but had her season cut short by finger injuries. In 1949 she moved with the team to Illinois where they became the Springfield Sallies; she was to pitch in 1949 and again in 1950 and had a 3 win 2 loss record with a .231 batting average when her season and career were ended by further injuries. Returning to Pennsylvania, she worked for Lafayette Manor while playing softball in West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. In later years she was to serve for five years as a Dominican Missionary Sister. She was part of the 1988 mass induction of the AAGPBL and its players into the Baseball Hall of Fame; the league's story was told in the 1992 feature "A League of Their Own".
Bio by: Bob Hufford
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