Betty Jane Fritz Explained

Betty Jane Fritz
Team:	All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Position:	Outfielder
Birth Date:	14 October 1924
Birth Place:	Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Death Place:	Solon Springs, Wisconsin
Bats:	Right
Throws:	Right
Teams:	Rockford Peaches (1943)
Highlights:	Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display at Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)

Betty Jane Fritz (October 14, 1924 – August 11, 1994) was a center fielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the season. Listed at, 130 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.^[1]

Born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Fritz was one of the sixty founding members of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. A good-hitting outfielder, she played one season for the Rockford Peaches, a team managed by Eddie Stumpf. She batted a .210 average and tied for eighth 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

Fielding^[1]

Notes and References

1. http://www.aagpbl.org/profiles/betty-jane-fritz/394 Betty Jane Fritz
2. http://www.aagpbl.org/teams/rockford-peaches/1943 1943 Rockford Peaches
3. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000. Format: Paperback, 294pp. Language: English.