Betty Carveth
| Betty Carveth | |
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| All-American Girls Professional Baseball League | |
| Pitcher | |
| Born: April 13, 1925 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | |
| Died: January 27, 2019 (aged 93) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
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Marjorie Elizabeth Carveth (later Dunn, April 13, 1925 – January 27, 2019) was a Canadian pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1945 season. She batted and threw right handed.[1]
Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Betty Carveth was one of the 68 players born in Canada to join the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in its twelve years history.
In her only season Carveth posted a combined 4–11 record and a 2.28 earned run average in 21 games for the Rockford Peaches (1945) and the Fort Wayne Daisies. During the best-of-five playoff series, she lost an 11-inning pitching duel with Racine Belles' Doris Barr.[2]
In 1998, she garnered honorary induction in the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. She also is part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled in 1988 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.[3]
Betty Carveth Dunn spent the latter part of her life in Edmonton and continued to be involved by awarding an annual $2000 scholarship which is named in her honour and shared with Millie Warwick McAuley, another Canadian who played in the AAGPBL. The scholarship is awarded in Alberta to a young female baseball player who combines excellence on the diamond, in the classroom and in the community. Betty and Millie also were Special Ambassadors during the first-ever World Cup of Women's Baseball held at Edmonton in 2004.[4][5] In 2017, at the age of 91, Dunn was the oldest person at the time to be inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame.[6] She died in Edmonton in 2019 at the age of 93.[7]
Career statistics
[edit]Pitching
| GP | W | L | W-L% | ERA | IP | H | RA | ER | BB | SO | HBP | WP | WHIP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 4 | 11 | .267 | 2.28 | 138 | 116 | 57 | 35 | 47 | 28 | 0 | 3 | 1.18 |
Batting
| GP | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | BA | OBP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 47 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | .149 | .231 |
Fielding
| GP | PO | A | E | TC | DP | FA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 6 | 63 | 9 | 78 | 0 | .885 |
Sources
[edit]- ^ a b "All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Betty Dunn". Retrieved 2019-03-28.
- ^ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000. Format: Hardcover, 294pp. ISBN 0-7864-0597-X
- ^ Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame – 1998 Inductees Archived March 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Daily Herald Tribune – Betty Carveth (Dunn) still throwing sliders a half-century on. Article by Fred Rinne. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
- ^ Edmonton International Baseball Foundation – 2000 IBAF World Junior AAA Baseball Championship Archived June 10, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jones, Terry (2017-02-17). "Former Peach a keen induction into Alberta Sports Hall of Fame". Edmonton Sun. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
- ^ "Remembering the life of Marjorie DUNN".
- ^ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book