Shirley Crites

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Shirley Crites

All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Infielder
Born: (1934-08-21)August 21, 1934 Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Died: December 28, 1990(1990-12-28) (aged 56) Phoenix, Arizona
Batted: Right	Threw: Right
Teams
Fort Wayne Daisies (1953)
Career highlights and awards
Postseason appearance (1953) Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display at Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)

Shirley L. Crites (August 21, 1934 – December 28, 1990) was an infielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1953 season. Crites batted and threw right-handed. She was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.^[1]

״Squirrely״, as her teammates nicknamed her, played briefly for the 1953 pennant-winning Fort Wayne Daisies. She hit a .129 average in 47 games, appearing mainly at third base as a backup to incumbent Catherine Horstman, which gave manager Bill Allington the chance to use Hortsman more as a pitcher.

Fort Wayne clinched the title with a 66–39 record, 4½ games ahead of the Grand Rapids Chicks, but lost to the Kalamazoo Lassies in the first round series. Crites went 0-for-3 in a playoff game.^[2]^[3]

Crites 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.

She died in 1990 in Phoenix, Arizona, at the age of 56.^[4]

Career statistics

Batting

GP	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	TB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG
47	132	15	17	3	1	0	11	7	22	15	17	.129	.218	.145

Fielding

GP	PO	A	E	TC	DP	FA
20	41	92	11	144	5	.924

^[1]^[5]

Sources

↑ 1.0 1.1 "All-American Girls Professional Baseball League official website – Shirley Crites profile".
↑ 1953 Fort Wayne Daisies
↑ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000. Format: Softcover, 294pp. Language: English. ISBN 978-0-7864-3747-4
↑ Bollinger County, Missouri Genealogy – Shirley L. Crites entry
↑ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book

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Teams	Battle Creek Belles Chicago Colleens Fort Wayne Daisies Grand Rapids Chicks Kalamazoo Lassies Kenosha Comets Milwaukee Chicks Minneapolis Millerettes Muskegon Belles Muskegon Lassies Peoria Redwings Racine Belles Rockford Peaches South Bend Blue Sox Springfield Sallies

Seasons	1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954

Awards and recognition	All-Star Team Player of the Year Batting records Fielding records Pitching records

Related articles	List of managers List of players Rules of play A League of Their Own (film) A League of Their Own (TV series) Arthur Meyerhoff Philip K. Wrigley

Persondata
Name	Crites, Shirley
Alternative names
Short description	All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
Date of birth	August 21, 1934
Place of birth	Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Date of death	December 28, 1990
Place of death	Phoenix, Arizona

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