| Leola Brody | |
| Birth Date: | 30 May 1922 |
| Birth Place: | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Long Grove, Illinois, U.S. |
| Bats: | Right |
| Throws: | Right |
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Leola Mae Brody [Hay] (May 30, 1922 – December 14, 1997) was an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player. Brody batted and threw right handed. She was nicknamed Bubbles.[1] [2]
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Brody joined the league in its inaugural season of 1943. Brody was assigned to the Racine Belles, even though she did not appear in a game for the team. After that, she played fastpitch softball for the Bloomer Girls club based in Chicago.[1]
Following her playing retirement, Brody taught bowling and bowled in men's leagues. Throughout the 1970s, she also worked as a physical therapist at a hospital in Wetumpka, Alabama.[1]
The AAGPBL folded in 1954, but there is a permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York since November 5, 1988, that honors the entire league rather than any individual figure.[3]
Bubbles Brody died in 1997 in Long Grove, Illinois, at the age of 75.[1]