Johanna Hageman
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Born: December 17, 1918 Chicago, Illinois | |||
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Died: February 10, 1984 (aged 65) Chicago, Illinois | |||
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Johanna Hageman [Hargraves] (December 17, 1918 – February 10, 1984) was a first base player and chaperone in All-American Girls Professional Baseball League between the 1943 and 1949 seasons. Listed at 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m), 155 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.[1][2]
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Johanna Hageman was one of the sixty original members of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The circuit operated from 1943 through 1954 and started with four teams: the Racine Belles and the Kenosha Comets, both from Wisconsin; the Rockford Peaches from Illinois, and the South Bend Blue Sox from Indiana. League play officially began on May 30, 1943 and each team was made up of fifteen girls.[3]
In the inaugural season, Hageman was the best fielder at first base while playing for the Blue Sox. She compiled a .983 average, after committing only 21 errors in 1,178 fielding chances. She also hit .225 with a .319 on-base percentage and a .295 slugging in 108 games, ending third in the league for the most doubles (10), sixth in runs batted in (45) and tenth in hits (85).[4][5]
In 1944, Hageman batted just .142 in a career-high 116 games, but kept her good defense at first with a .982 mark. The next season she was traded to Kenosha and slumped to .117 in 96 games, even though she posted a .983 fielding average. She went on to play four more seasons with Kenosha from 1946 through 1949.[1][4][6][7]
Hageman died in Chicago, Illinois at the age of 65. Four years after her death, she became part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled in 1988 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.[1][3]
Career statistics
Batting
| GP | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | TB | BB | SO | BA | OBP | SLG |
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| 320 | 1011 | 79 | 169 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 82 | 58 | 202 | 128 | 87 | .167 | .261 | .200 |
Fielding
| GP | PO | A | E | TC | DP | FA |
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| 319 | 3220 | 94 | 59 | 3373 | 93 | .983 |
Sources
- 1 2 3 "All-American Girls Professional Baseball League official website – Johanna Hageman profile".
- ↑ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000. Format: Paperback, 294pp. Language: English. ISBN 0-7864-3747-2
- 1 2 "All-American Girls Professional Baseball League History".
- 1 2 3 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book
- ↑ 1943 South Bend Blue Sox
- ↑ 1944 South Bend Blue Sox
- ↑ 1945 Kenosha Comets