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| name = Joan Berger | image = | image_size = 200px | caption = {{ffdc|1=Joan Berger.jpg|log=2012 September 9|date=April 2013}} | team = All-American Girls Professional Baseball League | position = Infield / Outfield | birth_date= {{Birth date and age|1933|10|09|mf=y}} | birth_place= Passaic, New Jersey | death_date= | death_place= | bats = Right | throws = Right | debutyear = | finalyear = | teams =
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}}Joan Berger [Knebl] (born October 9, 1933) is a former female infielder and outfielder who played from {{Baseball year|1951}} through {{Baseball year|1954}} in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at {{height|ft=5|in=4}}, 132 lb, Berger batted and threw right-handed. She was born in Passaic, New Jersey.[1][2] An All-Star at second base, Joan Berger played in the last four seasons of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Her accomplishments also included winning the Rookie of the Year Award and playing in the All-American touring team piloted by Bill Allington.[3][4] Early lifeReflecting on her early influences, Berger explained that her father Slim Berger was a semiprofessional baseball player who helped her learn to play the game. My father was a great sportsman, he used to take me to all his games and I went in the field during his practices. Her father later formed the Garfield Flashettes, which became the first girls' softball team based in Garfield, New Jersey. Berger joined her father's team when she was in eighth grade, and tried out for the AAGPBL as a sophomore in high school, but she was too young to join the league. She attended to a new tryout the next year, but her father advised her to wait until the next year. Finally, Berger joined the league in 1951 after graduating from high school. She was allocated to the Rockford Peaches, a team managed by the aforementioned Bill Allington.[4][5] AAGPBLBerger entered the league as a right fielder, hitting a .251 average in only 40 games. At this point, she maintained her rookie status for the following season. In 1952 she switched to second base, won Rookie of the Year honors, and was the only rookie to make the All-Star Team. The next season she played shortstop and second, splitting her playing time between third base and second in 1954, when she hit a career-high .280 during what turned out to be the league's final season. Rockford made the playoffs from 1951 to 1953 but failed to win the championship.[5][6][7][8][9] Allington All-StarsFollowing her AAGPBL career, Berger joined several other players on Bill Allington's All-American team, a barnstorming remnant of the league. The Allington All-Stars played 100 games between 1954 and 1958, each booked in a different town, against male teams, while traveling over 10,000 miles in the manager's station wagon and a Ford Country Sedan. Besides Berger, the Allington All-Stars included players as Gloria Cordes, Jeanie Descombes, Gertrude Dunn, Betty Foss, Mary Froning, Jean Geissinger, Katie Horstman, Maxine Kline, Dolores Lee, Magdalen Redman, Ruth Richard, Dorothy Schroeder, Jean Smith, Dolly Vanderlip and Joanne Weaver, among others.[10] Private lifeBerger married Andrew Knebl in 1959 and settled down to raise a family. She had three boys, Andrew Jr., Kevin and Robert, and has five granddaughters. She worked for Ferrero USA for eight years and retired in 1994.[4] Joan Berger is part of the AAGPBL permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York, opened in {{Baseball year|1988}}, which is dedicated to the entire league rather than any individual player. She currently lives in Lodi, New Jersey.[11][12] StatisticsBatting
Sources1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.aagpbl.org/profiles/joan-berger-knebl-bergie/95|title=All-American Girls Professional Baseball League - Joan Knebl|accessdate=2019-03-26}} {{All-American Girls Professional Baseball League}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Berger, Joan}}2. ^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|978-0-7864-3747-4}} 3. ^The Patriotic Pinch Hitter: Bill Allington's All-American Team 4. ^1 2 3 The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League 5. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.thediamondangle.com/archive/dec02/berger.html |title= The Diamond Angle – An interview with Joan Berger}} 6. ^1951 Rockford Peaches. Retrieved 2019-03-26. 7. ^1952 Rockford Peaches. Retrieved 2019-03-26. 8. ^1953 Rockford Peaches. Retrieved 2019-03-26. 9. ^1954 Rockford Peaches. Retrieved 2019-03-26. 10. ^Women in Baseball: The Forgotten History – Gai Ingham Berlage, Charley Gerard. Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994. Format: Hardcover, 224pp. Language: English. {{ISBN|978-0-275-94735-4}} 11. ^AAGPBL History. Retrieved 2019-03-26. 12. ^The Celebrity Black Book 2010 – Jordan Mcauley. Publisher: Mega Niche Media, 2009. Format: Paperback, 814pp. Language: English. {{ISBN|978-1-60487-014-5}} 7 : All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players|Baseball players from New Jersey|People from Lodi, New Jersey|Sportspeople from Passaic, New Jersey|1933 births|Living people|Rockford Peaches players |
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