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American baseball player (1924–1985) Baseball player
Betty Russell
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Outfield
Born: (1924-10-01)October 1, 1924
Globe, Arizona, US
Died: 1985 (aged 60)
Tonto Basin, Arizona, US
Batted: RightThrew: Right
Teams
Career highlights and awards
  • Championship team (1946)
  • Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display at Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)

Betty Josephine Russell (1924–1985) was an outfielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m), 145 lb, Russell batted and threw right-handed. She was born in Globe, Arizona.

A member of a championship team, Betty Russell played for the Arizona Ramblers before joining the league with the Racine Belles during the 1946 season.

Russell saw little action with Racine, while playing as a fourth outfielder for all-stars Eleanor Dapkus, Edythe Perlick and Claire Schillace. She hit a .143 average in 12 games to help Racine clinch the 1946 championship.

Russell died in 1985 in Tonto Basin, Arizona, at the age of 60.

Three years after her death, she became part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

Batting statistics

GP AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO BA
12 28 0 4 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 .169

Sources

  1. ^ "All-American Girls Professional Baseball League official website – Betty Russell profile".
  2. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000. Format: Hardcover, 294pp. Language: English. ISBN 0-7864-0597-X
  3. 1946 Racine Belles Archived March 29, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book
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