Professional Baseball Player. She was a Cuban pitcher and outfielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) between the 1949 and 1954 for the Chicago Colleens, Fort Wayne Daisies, Battle Creek Belles, Kalamazoo Lassies and the Grand Rapids Chicks. She was raised in Cuba where at the age of thirteen she played baseball for the Estrellas Cubanas (Cuban Stars), that was an All-Star team modeled after the AAGPBL. After the league disbanded in 1954 she found work at General Electric in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She was active as a reporter and columnist for Touching Bases, the AAGPBL Players Association newsletter, and as an active AAGPBL and NEIBA member. She is part of the AAGPBL permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York.
Professional Baseball Player. She was a Cuban pitcher and outfielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) between the 1949 and 1954 for the Chicago Colleens, Fort Wayne Daisies, Battle Creek Belles, Kalamazoo Lassies and the Grand Rapids Chicks. She was raised in Cuba where at the age of thirteen she played baseball for the Estrellas Cubanas (Cuban Stars), that was an All-Star team modeled after the AAGPBL. After the league disbanded in 1954 she found work at General Electric in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She was active as a reporter and columnist for Touching Bases, the AAGPBL Players Association newsletter, and as an active AAGPBL and NEIBA member. She is part of the AAGPBL permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York.
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