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词条 Jane Jacobs (baseball)
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{{For|other people named Jane Jacobs|Jane Jacobs (disambiguation){{!}}Jane Jacobs}}{{Infobox baseball biography
| name=Jane Jacobs
| image=Jane Jacobs baseball.jpg
| image_size=
| caption=
| team=All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
| position=Pitcher
| birth_date= {{birth_date|1924|6|16}}
| birth_place=Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
| death_date= {{death_date and age|2015|9|13|1924|6|16}}
| death_place= Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
| bats=Right
| throws=Right
| teams =
  • Racine Belles (1944–1945, 1947)
  • Peoria Redwings (1946)

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

}}Jane Jeanette Jacobs [Badini] (June 16, 1924 – September 13, 2015) was a pitcher who played from {{baseball year|1944}} through {{baseball year|1947}} in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at {{height|ft=5|in=4}}, 130 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.[1]

Jane Jacobs was not a hard thrower, but her underhand fastball fooled batters because she was basically a curveball pitcher. Jacobs hurled an in-curve, out-curve, upshoot and specially a drop ball, her better pitch. Her most impressive start was having pitched a complete game-shutout one-hitter, but she fell victim to sidearm delivery when the league converted over on it.[2]

״Jake״, as her teammates nicknamed her, was born in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, where she started playing softball at the age of 11. In 1943, she was spotted by a league's scout when she was 18, but did not sign until a year later.[3]

Jacobs entered the league in 1944 with the Racine Belles, playing for them two years. She did not have a winning season, even though she posted a 2.82 earned run average in 1945 and 2.86 in 1945, while compiling marks of 9–16 and 7–9, respectively. The team had a surplus of talent, so she was loaned to the Peoria Redwings the next year.[1][4][5][6]

In 1946, according to the new AAGPBL rules of play, the pitchers were forced to switch gradually from underhand to sidearm delivery. Jacobs made the transition, with no small effort, and led the Redwings pitchers with a 2.13 ERA, which was a career-high. Though her success was not reflected in her 6–12 record due to poor run support.[7][8]

She returned to Racine in 1947, when the league adopted full sidearm pitching regulations. This time she struggled to make the additional mandatory adjustment and went 2–6 with a 2.92 ERA. Then, for the third consecutive year the league set a new rule for a strictly overhand pitching in 1948. It spelled the end of Jacobs' career. I was afraid I'd ruin my arm, she explained with resignation.[7][9]

In a four-year career, she was managed by Racine's Leo Murphy and Peoria's Bill Rodgers. She finished with a 24–43 record and a 2.65 ERA in 88 pitching appearances.[7]

Jacobs returned to her home of Ohio, where she operated her own dry cleaning business for 40 years. She married Mario Badini in 1973, and was widowed after 16 years of marriage. Jane was diagnosed with cancer in 1994, but survived the surgery and the follow up treatments, according she said. After recuperating from cancer, she ran a ceramics business for a long time.[3]

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. Though she did not attend the ceremony, she traveled to Cooperstown in 2009 to see her name in the hall. I will definitely be back, said the proud AAGPBL veteran.[10]

The native of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio made the long pilgrimage along with a niece, her husband and their two daughters. She also extended her Cooperstown visit to the A. Bartlett Giamatti Research Center, where she both donated photos and clippings from her AAGPBL career and received copies of other photos from the Hall’s archives. She even helped identify some former teammates who were unidentified in old team photos.[10]

Career statistics

Pitching
GPWLW-L%ERAIPHRAERBBSOHBPWPWHIP
88 24 43 .358 2.65 590 581 292 174 189 52 20 29 1.31
Batting
GPABRH2B3BHRRBISBBBSOBAOBP
88 204 7 24 0 0 1 9 10 11 29 .118 .214
Fielding
GPPOAETCDPFA
88 20 170 19 199 2 .909
[1][7]

Sources

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.aagpbl.org/index.cfm/profiles/badini-jane-jacobs/267|title=All-American Girls Professional Baseball League official website – Jane Jacobs 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. Language: English. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-2263-0}}
3. ^The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
4. ^All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000. Format: Hardcover, 294pp. Language: English. {{ISBN|0-7864-0597-X}}
5. ^1944 Racine Belles
6. ^1945 Racine Belles
7. ^All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book
8. ^1946 Peoria Redwings
9. ^1947 Racine Belles
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://baseballhall.mlblogs.com/tag/jane-jacobs-badini/ |title=MLB Blogs Network – Former AAGPBL pitcher makes the pilgrimage - Article by Tim Wiles }}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
{{All-American Girls Professional Baseball League}}
  • Obituary
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jacobs, Jane}}

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