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Canadian baseball player (1925–2019) Baseball player
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: RightThrew: 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.

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.

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.

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. 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. She died in Edmonton in 2019 at the age of 93.

Career statistics

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

Sources

  1. ^ "All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Betty Dunn". Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  2. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. 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
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