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Betty Carveth

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Betty Carveth
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Pitcher
Born: (1925-04-13)April 13, 1925
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Died: January 27, 2019(2019-01-27) (aged 93)
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
Teams
Career highlights and awards
  • 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

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Pitching

GP W L W-L% ERA IP H RA ER BB SO HBP WP WHIP
21 4 11 .267 2.28 138 116 57 35 47 28 0 3 1.18

Batting

GP AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO BA OBP
21 47 2 7 0 0 0 1 0 5 4 .149 .231

Fielding

GP PO A E TC DP FA
21 6 63 9 78 0 .885

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Sources

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  1. ^ a b "All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Betty Dunn". Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  2. ^ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record BookW. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000. Format: Hardcover, 294pp. ISBN 0-7864-0597-X
  3. ^ Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame – 1998 Inductees Archived March 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Daily Herald Tribune – Betty Carveth (Dunn) still throwing sliders a half-century on. Article by Fred Rinne. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  5. ^ Edmonton International Baseball Foundation – 2000 IBAF World Junior AAA Baseball Championship Archived June 10, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Jones, Terry (2017-02-17). "Former Peach a keen induction into Alberta Sports Hall of Fame". Edmonton Sun. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  7. ^ "Remembering the life of Marjorie DUNN".
  8. ^ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book