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American baseball player Baseball player
June Gilmore
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Outfielder
Born: (1922-06-13)June 13, 1922
Peoria, Illinois
Died: January 6, 1980(1980-01-06) (aged 57)
Peoria, Illinois
Batted: RightThrew: Right
Teams
Career highlights and awards
  • Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (unveiled in 1988)

June Gilmore (later Hawton; June 13, 1922 – January 6, 1980) was an outfielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in its 1944 season. Listed at 5' 1", 110 lb., she batted and threw right handed.

Born in Peoria, Illinois, June Gilmore joined the Rockford Peaches during the second season of the league. She did not have individual records or additional information was incomplete at the time of the request.

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League folded in 1954, but there is a permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York since 1988 that honors the entire league rather than any individual figure.

Sources

  1. ^ June Hawton. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
  2. Madden, W. C. (2005) The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A Biographical Dictionary. McFarland & Company; ISBN 978-0-7864-2263-0
  3. Madden, W. C. (2000) All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-0597-8
  4. Before A League of Their Own. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
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