| Harold Greiner | |
| Width: | 175px |
| Position: | Manager |
| Birth Date: | July 7, 1907 |
| Birth Place: | Fort Wayne, Indiana |
| Death Place: | Fort Wayne, Indiana |
| Bats: | n/a |
| Throws: | n/a |
| Stat1label: | Managing record |
| Stat1value: | 52-57 |
| Stat2label: | W-L% |
| Stat2value: | .477 |
| Stat3label: | Games behind |
| Stat3value: | 23 |
| Stat4label: | Place |
| Stat4value: | 5th |
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Harold Greiner (July 7, 1907 – July 17, 1993) was a restaurant entrepreneur, baseball manager and softball coach.[1] [2]
Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Greiner was the owner of Bob Inn Restaurant and Bakery. He also coached softball for ten years and sponsored a women's team that won state fastpitch softball titles in 1944 and 1945.[1]
In addition, Greiner scouted for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and contributed to bringing the Fort Wayne Daisies to his hometown in 1945.[3] He later became part of the AAGPBL board of directors and then managed the Daisies during the 1949 season.[4] Some of the players recruited by Greiner for the league include Maxine Kline, June Peppas and Kathryn Vonderau, among others.[5]
Greiner appears in the documentary A League of Their Own, aired on PBS in 1987,[6] which inspired a film with the same title released in 1992.[7] Both the documentary and the film brought a rejuvenated interest to the extinct baseball circuit. Then, the AAGPBL received their long overdue recognition in 1988, when the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum dedicated a permanent display in Cooperstown, New York to honor the entire league rather than individual baseball personalities.[8]