Betty Jane Fritz

Betty Jane Fritz

All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Outfielder
Born: Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Died: August 11, 1994
Bats: Right Throws: Right
Teams
Career highlights and awards
  • Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display
    at Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)

Betty Jane Fritz was a center fielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1943 season. Listed at 5' 5", 130 lb., she batted and threw right handed.[1]

Born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Betty Fritz was one of the sixty original founding members of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

A good-hitting outfielder, Fritz played one season for the Rockford Peaches, a team managed by Eddie_Stumpf. She batted a .210 average and tied for eigth in the league for the most runs batted in (43). Besides this, she tied Betsy Jochum of the South Bend Blue Sox for the most outfield assists (17), being surpassed only by Racine Belles' Eleanor Dapkus (19).[2][3]

Career statistics

Batting

GP AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB TB BB SO BA OBP SLG
98 348 38 73 4 1 0 43 29 79 9 16 .210 .230 .227

Fielding

GP PO A E TC DP FA
98 152 17 9 178 4 .949

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Sources

  1. ^ a b "All-American Girls Professional Baseball League official website – Betty Jane Fritz profile". http://www.aagpbl.org/index.cfm/profiles/fritz-betty-jane/394. 
  2. ^ 1943 Rockford Peaches
  3. ^ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000. Format: Paperback, 294pp. Language: English. ISBN 0786437472