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词条 Marie Kruckel
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  1. Life and career

  2. Career statistics

  3. Sources

{{Infobox baseball biography
| name=Marie Kruckel
| image=Marie Kruckel.jpg
| image_size=200px
| caption=
| team=All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
| position=Outfield / Pitcher
| birth_date= {{birth date|1924|06|18|mf=y}}
| birth_place=Bronx, New York City
| death_date= {{death date and age|2012|7|21|1924|6|18}}
| death_place=South Bend, Indiana
| bats=Right
| throws=Right
| teams =
  • South Bend Blue Sox (1946, 1948[start])
  • Fort Wayne Daisies (1947)
  • Muskegon Lassies (1948[end], 1949)

|highlights=
  • Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display
    at Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)

}}Marie Ann Kruckel [״Kruck״] (June 18, 1924 – July 21, 2012) was an outfielder and pitcher who played from {{baseball year|1946}} through {{baseball year|1949}} in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at {{height|ft=5|in=4}}, 130 lb (59 kg), she batted and threw right-handed.[1][2]

Life and career

Born in The Bronx, Marie Kruckel was one of more than a dozen players who hailed from New York City and State and made AAGPBL teams. Others included Muriel Bevis, Gloria Cordes, Mildred Deegan, Nancy Mudge, Margaret Russo, Betty Trezza and Margaret Wigiser. A willing and determined player, Kruckel began her career at outfield and later doubled as a spot starter for three teams in a span of four years.[1][3]

During her grade school days, Kruckel started playing softball in the Bronx and later played organized ball on the weekends while at high school. Following her graduation, she attended East Stroudsburg State Teachers College in Pennsylvania and played for a team based in Yorktown, New York. By 1945, she wrote a letter to the league requesting information and received an invitation to the training camp. The league sent her a contract offer after she graduated.[4]

Kruckel entered the league in 1946 with the South Bend Blue Sox, playing for them one year before joining the Fort Wayne Daisies in 1947. Because she taught school, Kruckel was unable to attend spring training and was used exclusively as a fourth outfielder during her first two seasons. Then, in 1948 she returned to the Blue Sox. They tried her as a pitcher because she showed a good command of the curveball and a strong off-speed pitch. She was traded to the Muskegon Lassies midway through the season, staying with them for one more year.[4]

Her most productive season came in 1948, when she posted a combined 9–4 record and a 1.65 earned run average in 19 games pitched, ending sixth in the league with a .692 winning percentage. In all, she went 10–11 with a 2.11 ERA in 34 pitching appearances and batted a .248 average in 98 games.[5]

Following her baseball career, Kruckel taught and coached during 38 years at Clay High School in South Bend, Indiana. Since her retirement she was a regular attendee at the annual AAGPBL Players Association reunions.[4]

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

Marie Kruckel died in 2012 in South Bend, Indiana, at the age of 88.[6]

Career statistics

Batting
GPABRH2B3BHRRBISBBBSOBAOBP
98 236 16 35 1 1 0 16 7 42 35 .148 .277
Pitching
GPWLW-L%ERAIPHRAERBBSOHBPWPWHIP
34 10 11 .476 2.11 205 165 86 48 64 27 7 6 1.12
Fielding
GPPOAETCDPFA
120 82 52 5 139 3 .964
[1][4]

Sources

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.aagpbl.org/index.cfm/profiles/kruckel-marie/99 |title=All-American Girls Professional Baseball League official website – Mary Kruckel profile}}
2. ^The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A Biographical Dictionary – W.C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2005. Format: Softcover, 295 pp. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-2263-0}}
3. ^New York Women's Baseball Association website
4. ^The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
5. ^All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W.C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000. Format: Hardcover, 294pp. {{ISBN|0-7864-0597-X}}
6. ^Legacy.com – Mary A. Kruckel obituary
{{All-American Girls Professional Baseball League}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Kruckel, Marie}}

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