Betty Carveth Explained

Betty Carveth
Position:Pitcher
Birth Date:13 April 1925
Birth Place:Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Death Place:Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Bats:Right
Throws:Right
Teams:
Highlights:
  • Postseason appearance (1945)
  • Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame Honorary Induction (1998)
  • Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display
    at Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)

Marjorie Elizabeth Carveth (later Dunn, April 13, 1925 – January 27, 2019) was a Canadian pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1945 season. She batted and threw right handed.[1]

Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Betty Carveth was one of the 68 players born in Canada to join the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in its twelve years history.

In her only season Carveth posted a combined 4–11 record and a 2.28 earned run average in 21 games for the Rockford Peaches (1945) and the Fort Wayne Daisies. During the best-of-five playoff series, she lost an 11-inning pitching duel with Racine Belles' Doris Barr.[2]

In 1998, she garnered honorary induction in the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. She also 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.[3]

Betty Carveth Dunn spent the latter part of her life in Edmonton and continued to be involved by awarding an annual $2000 scholarship which is named in her honour and shared with Millie Warwick McAuley, another Canadian who played in the AAGPBL. The scholarship is awarded in Alberta to a young female baseball player who combines excellence on the diamond, in the classroom and in the community. Betty and Millie also were Special Ambassadors during the first-ever World Cup of Women's Baseball held at Edmonton in 2004.[4] [5] In 2017, at the age of 91, Dunn was the oldest person at the time to be inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame.[6] She died in Edmonton in 2019 at the age of 93.[7]

Career statistics

Pitching

Batting

Fielding

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Betty Dunn. 2019-03-28.
  2. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record BookW. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000. Format: Hardcover, 294pp.
  3. http://baseballhalloffame.ca/museum/inductees/aagbpl/ Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame – 1998 Inductees
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20090615070648/http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1610968 Daily Herald Tribune – Betty Carveth (Dunn) still throwing sliders a half-century on. Article by Fred Rinne
  5. http://baseballeibf.ca/page4.html Edmonton International Baseball Foundation – 2000 IBAF World Junior AAA Baseball Championship
  6. News: Former Peach a keen induction into Alberta Sports Hall of Fame. Jones. Terry. Edmonton Sun. 2017-02-17. 2019-03-28.
  7. Web site: Remembering the life of Marjorie DUNN.
  8. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book