Ladies of Professional Baseball autographs (Closed)

[SmokyBurgess]

1. Joan Berger Knebl
2. Helen "Gig" Smith
3. Jean Faut Eastman
4. Gertie Dunn

All 4 ladies have signed in ballpoint ink on a 4x6 index card (unlined). Each have added the team and years they played under their signature.

Obtained in person in 1994.

Rules:
Minimum Bid- $4.00
Bid Increments- $1.00
Winner adds $1.00 postage
Closes: Saturday Nov. 16th at 9:00 EST

Auction closed...thanks to all!

[conor912]

Would love to see a scan....

[SmokyBurgess]

...so would I!

Don't have a way to scan as I am at the library's mercy.

[39special]

$4

[SmokyBurgess]

Official "auction draws near" bump...

[scottglevy]

I was too curious to not do a little research. Amazing all the ladies, except for Ms. Dunn, are still alive and one is 91! Here y'all go:


Joan Berger [Knebl] (born October 9, 1933) is a former female infielder and outfielder who played from 1951 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m), 132 lb, Berger batted and threw right-handed. She was born in Passaic, New Jersey.[1][2]

An All-Star at second base, Joan Berger played in the last four seasons of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Her accomplishments also included winning the Rookie of the Year Award and playing in the All-American touring team piloted by Bill Allington

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Helen "Gig" Smith (born January 5, 1922) is a former utility infielder who played briefly in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She batted and threw right-handed.

Smith was born and grew up in Richmond, Virginia. An all-around athlete in college, both in basketball and softball, she proudly served in the Army during World War II before joining the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She entered the AAGPBL in 1947 with the Kenosha Comets, and also played for the Grand Rapids Chicks during the 1948 season.

Following her baseball career, Smith attended and graduated from Pratt Art Institute in New York City. She later taught art in the Richmond area where, as of 2012, she is living in retirement.

The AAGPBL folded in 1954, but there is now a permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York since November 5, 1988 that honors those who were part of this unique experience. Smith, along with the rest of the league's girls, is now enshrined in the Hall.

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Jean Anna Faut [Winsch/Eastman] (born November 17, 1925) is a former female starting pitcher who played from 1946 through 1953 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m), 137 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.[1][2]

Jean Faut is considered by baseball historians and researchers as the greatest overhand pitcher in AAGPBL history. From 1946 through 1953, Faut set several all-time and single-season records. She compiled a lifetime record of 140–64 with a 1.23 earned run average in 235 pitching appearances, registering the lowest career ERA for any pitcher in the league. Besides hurling two perfect games, her league achievements include pitching two no-hitters, twice winning the Triple Crown and collecting three 20-win seasons. She also led in wins and strikeouts three times, set the league record for single-season winning percentage at .909 (20–2), and led the South Bend Blue Sox to consecutive championships in 1951 and 1952. Faut never had a losing season or an ERA above 1.51, being surpassed only by Helen Nicol for the most career wins (163). A four-time member of the All-Star Team, Faut was named Player of the Year in two out of eight possible seasons. Her baseball career, which spanned eight years, reflects the experiences of many girls who played in the competitive era of overhand pitching in the AAGPBL. But like several other players from the league, she coupled her professional playing career with a more traditional lifestyle as a wife and mother

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Gertrude Dunn (September 30, 1933 – September 29, 2004) was an American baseball player with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, the league made famous by the 1992 film A League Of Their Own.

Dunn played shortstop on two teams, the Battle Creek Belles and the South Bend Blue Sox, and was named "Rookie of the Year" in 1952.

When the league was unable to continue in 1955, Dunn joined several other players selected by former Fort Wayne Daisies manager Bill Allington to play in the national touring team known as the All-Americans All-Stars. The team played 100 games, 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 Dunn, the Allington All-Stars included players as Joan Berger, Gloria Cordes, Jeanie Descombes, Betty Foss, Mary Froning, Jean Geissinger, Katie Horstman, Maxine Kline, Dolores Lee, Magdalen Redman, Ruth Richard, Dorothy Schroeder, Jean Smith, Dolly Vanderlip and Joanne Weaver, among others.[2]

She later attended West Chester University of Pennsylvania and graduated with the class of 1960.[3]

Dunn was a player on the United States women's national field hockey team. She also coached field hockey and was named to the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame on January 16, 1988.[4]

At the age of 72, on September 29, 2004, Dunn died in Avondale, Pennsylvania when the Piper Archer airplane she was solo-piloting crashed shortly after takeoff from New Garden Airport.[5]

She was posthumously inducted into the Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame in Baltimore, Maryland in 2007.[3][6]

[brewcrewfan77]

I'll go $6

[39special]

$7

[brewcrewfan77]

$10

[39special]

$12