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Baseball player
Gloria W. Marks
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Pitcher
Born: 1923
San Diego, California, U.S.
Bats: RightThrows: Right
Teams
Career highlights and awards
  • Championship Team (1943)
  • Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display
    at Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)

Gloria W. Marks (born 1923) is a former pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1943 season. Listed at 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m), 130 lb, she batted and threw right-handed.

Gloria Marks was one of the sixty original players recruited by the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League for its inaugural season.

Born in San Diego, California, she pitched for several championship teams in her native San Diego before joining the league.

Marks was assigned to the Racine Belles, a team managed by former big leaguer Johnny Gottselig, as part of a pitching staff headed by Mary Nesbitt and Joanne Winter.

In her only season in the league, Marks helped win Racine the regular season title and the championship after going 11–9 for a .550 winning percentage. She also helped herself with the bat, connecting seven of her 18 hits for extra bases, to collect a very solid .471 slugging average.

Since 1988 she 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 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

Career statistics

Pitching

GP W L W-L% ERA IP H RA ER BB SO HB WP WHIP
29 11 9 .550 4.05 166 145 125 75 117 29 4 22 1.58

Batting

GP AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB TB BB SO BA OBP SLG
33 68 9 18 4 2 1 7 2 32 7 11 .265 .333 .471

Fielding

GP PO A E TC FA
29 18 63 15 96 .944

Sources

  1. "1930 U.S. Census". Ancestry.
  2. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000. Format: Paperback, 294pp. Language: English. ISBN 0-7864-3747-2
  3. The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A Biographical Dictionary – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2005. Format: Paperback, 295 pp. Language: English. ISBN 0-7864-3747-2
  4. ^ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book
  5. 1943 Racine Belles Archived January 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  6. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League official website – Gloria Marks entry

Further reading

  • "Coast, Legion Girls Open Series Tonight". Arizona Independent Republic. June 1, 1940. p. 3 (Section Two).
  • "Championship Belles Retain Veterans in All Positions; Get Two New Hurlers". The Racine Journal-Times. May 24, 1944. p. 14.
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