Barbara Galdonik

Barbara Galdonik
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Third base
Born: (1934-10-26)October 26, 1934
Kenosha, Wisconsin
Died: December 1, 2003(2003-12-01) (aged 69)
Superior, Wisconsin
Batted: Right Threw: Right
Teams
Career highlights and awards
  • Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (unveiled in 1988)

Barbara Ann Galdonik (October 26, 1934 – December 1, 2003) was an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player. Listed at 5' 5", 130 lb., she batted and threw right handed.[1][2]

Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Barbara played at third base for the Kenosha Comets and Battle Creek Belles clubs in a span of two seasons from 1950–1951. She did not have individual records or additional information was incomplete at the time of the request.[1][3]

She died in 2003 in Superior, Wisconsin, at the age of 69.[4]

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League folded in 1954, but there is a permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York since 1988 that honors the entire league rather than any individual figure.[5]

Sources

  1. 1 2 Profile. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Official Website
  2. ↑ Madden, W. C. (2005) The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A Biographical Dictionary. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-2263-0
  3. ↑ Madden, W. C. (2000) All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-0597-8
  4. ↑ Family Trees. Ancestry.com
  5. ↑ Before A League of Their Own. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
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