All-American Girls Professional Baseball Player. A slick fielding infielder with a knack for getting on base, she is remembered for her five year career in the All American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). Raised in upstate New York she manifested her athletic talent early and was a student at Taylor College of Upland, Indiana, when she had a 1949 tryout with the Ft. Wayne Daisies. Electing to stay in school at the time she went on to sign for 1950 with the Chicago Colleens, though she was sent to the Springfield Sallies during the season. Nancy spent 1951 and 1952 with the Kalamazoo Lassies but during the latter season she was traded to the Battle Creek Belles and was to remain with them when they moved north to Muskegon for 1953. Returning to Kalamazoo in 1954 she had her best year, batting .232 and making the All Star team while being part of what turned out to be the league's last champion squad. Known more for her skill with the glove than with the bat, Nancy batted only .183 with eight home runs over her career, though she did have a talent for drawing walks and getting hit by pitches and was a feared base stealer. After the league folded she taught at Michigan's Hillsdale College before moving on to the University of Minnesota where she remained until her 1983 retirement. Around 1980 she was instrumental in founding the AAGPBL Players Association and in 1988 was part of the Baseball Hall of Fame's mass induction of the league and its players. The circuit's story is told in the 1992 "A League of Their Own" in which Nancy had a cameo. She remained a skilled tennis player until well into her 70s, was active in the Gateway Christian and Missionary Alliance Church, and died of Alzheimer's Disease.