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词条 Jaynne Bittner
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  1. Biography

  2. Pitching statistics

  3. Sources

  4. External links

{{Infobox baseball biography
| name = Jaynne Berrier Bittner
| image =
| image_size = 200px
| caption = {{ffdc|1=Jaynne Berrier Bittner.jpg|log=2012 September 9|date=February 2015}}
| team = All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
| position = Pitcher
| birth_date= {{Birth date|1926|3|17}}
| birth_place= Lebanon, Pennsylvania
| death_date= {{Death date and age|2017|4|23|1926|3|17}}
| death_place= Ann Arbor, Michigan
| bats = Right
| throws = Right
| teams =
  • South Bend Blue Sox (1947)
  • Muskegon Lassies (1948)
  • Grand Rapids Chicks (1949–'52, 1954)
  • Fort Wayne Daisies (1952–'53)

|highlights=
  • Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame Induction

}}Jaynne Berrier Bittner [JB] (March 17, 1926 – April 23, 2017) was a starting pitcher who played from {{baseball year|1948}} through {{baseball year|1954}} for four teams of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at {{height|ft=5|in=9}}, 140 lb, she batted and threw right-handed.[1][2]

Biography

Bittner was a top all-around athlete in high school. She won the tennis championship three years in a row, held the table tennis crown for two years and was the leading scorer on the basketball team. An AAGPBL scout signed her after seeing her basketball prowess, thinking that she had athletic abilities, endurance and fitness necessary to play baseball. She attended to a league tryout in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and later was sent to the 1948 spring training to be held in Cuba. She had no baseball position, but the league was desperate for overhand pitchers, so she seemed like a good pitching prospect.[3]

Bittner entered the league in 1947 with the South Bend Blue Sox, playing for them one year before joining the Muskegon Lassies (1948), Grand Rapids Chicks (1949–52) and Fort Wayne Daisies (1952–53). Bittner posted a 9–9 record with a 2.55 earned run average as a 22-year-old rookie. Although she led the league in wild pitches (13) in 1949 and the following year issued the most balks (five), Bittner emerged in 1951 with Grand Rapids posting a 15–8 mark and a 2.95 ERA. Her most productive season came in 1953 with Fort Wayne, when she posted a 16–7 record and a 2.45 ERA. The Daisies made it to the playoffs in every year that Bittner pitched for them, but never won the Championship Title. She returned to the Chicks in 1954, which turned out to be the AAGPBL's last ever season.[4]

After the league folded, Bittner moved to Detroit, Michigan and drove a school bus. She also coached a softball team for 20 years.[5] In 1980, Bittner became the first woman inducted in the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame. 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. Bittner died on April 23, 2017 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.[6]

Pitching statistics

GPWLW-L%ERAIPHRAERBBSOWHIP
177 66 69 .489 3.38 1126 973 599 423 647 392 1.44
[5]

Sources

1. ^The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A Biographical Dictionary – W.7 C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2005. Format: Paperback, 295 pp. Language: English. {{ISBN|0-7864-3747-2}}
2. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.intelius.com/results.php?ReportType=1&qf=Jaynne&qmi=&qn=Bittner&qs=PA&searchform=name&trackit=74&focusfirst=0 |title= Intelius.com/Jaynne Berrier Bittner entry}}
3. ^Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball – Leslie A. Heaphy, Mel Anthony May. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2006. Format: Paperback, 438pp. Language: English. {{ISBN|0-7864-2100-2}}
4. ^Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball
5. ^The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
6. ^Jayne Bittner obituary

External links

  • All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Jaynne Bittner. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20081230030400/http://www.baseballhistorian.com/html/american_heroes.cfm?page=140 Baseball Historian]
  • Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame Website
{{All-American Girls Professional Baseball League}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Bittner, Jaynne}}

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