Jaynne Bittner

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Jaynne Bittner (born March 17, 1926 in Lebanon, Pennsylvania) was a female baseball player in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1948-1954. She was a pitcher who helped the Fort Wayne Daisies win back-to-back AAGPBL Championships in 1952 and 1953. Her career best was 16-7 win/loss record with a 2.45 earned run average in 209 innings, spanning 30 games in 1953. She was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame.

She relied on a fastball and 3-speed, hard-slider and posted a 9-9 record with a 2.55 earned run average as a 22-year old rookie with the Muskegon Lassies in 1948. She was traded to the Grand Rapids Chicks the following year, where she pitched from 1949 into early 1952 - including a 15-8 W/L and a 2.95 ERA in 183 innings, over 23 games in 1951.