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词条 Joan Holderness
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

  3. After baseball

  4. Career statistics

  5. Sources

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}}{{Infobox baseball biography
| name = Joan Holderness
| team = All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
| position = Shortstop
| birth_date= {{Birth date|1933|3|17|mf=y}}
| birth_place= Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S.
| death_date= {{Death date and age|2017|7|6|1933|3|17|mf=y}}
| death_place= Crossville, Tennessee, U.S.
| bats = Right
| throws = Right
| debutyear = {{baseball year|1949}}
| finalyear = {{baseball year|1951}}
| teams =
  • Kenosha Comets (1949–1950)
  • Grand Rapid Chicks (1950–1951)
  • Battle Creek Belles (1949)

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

}}

Joan Holderness (March 17, 1933 - July 6, 2017) was a member of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from 1949 to 1951.

Early life

Joan was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Both her father and grandfather played a lot of ball. So she played with them. She had a bat and a ball and they had flat gloves and she remembers playing as a child. She first heard about the league when her mother took her a ball game when she was in 5th or 6th grade for the Kenosha Comets. She loved it and immediately wished to play for the team. Her mother was strictly against this, and she refused to go to any more of the games. Holderness eventually began watching them practice, and met several ball players, who would play catch with her.

In 1947, at the age of 14, she was asked if she wanted to be Kenosha's batgirl. She accepted, received her uniform, and became the batgirl during the summer. A year later, the AAGPBL began using farm teams, and Holderness was given permission to play once a week. She played shortstop for that year, and moved up to the highest level of the league the next year.

Career

In 1949, Joan was invited to go to Spring training in Indiana. It was there she got a contract which her father signed as she was only 16 (under age). But her mom wouldn't let her travel so half the year she didn't do much. But she was very well-liked and by 1950, she played more, sometimes right-field. She had a good arm and was asked to join the Grand Rapid Chicks which was in town playing against Kenosha.

Throughout her baseball career, Joan played for the Kenosha Comets (1949-1950), the Grand Rapids Chicks (1950-1951), and the Battle Creek Belles (1951). She was a versatile player, playing outfield, shortstop, and utility infield.

After baseball

Following her time with the league, Joan's hobbies included fishing and bowling. In 1963, she joined the National Ladies Professional Bowling Association. In 1981, she was inducted into the Florida Women's Bowling Association Hall of Fame. A year later, she was inducted into the St. Petersburg, Florida Women's Hall of Fame and 2 years later, the Clearwater, Florida Women's Hall of Fame. Holderness died on July 6th, 2017, in Crossville, TN.[1]

Career statistics

Year G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO AVG
1949 34 48 2 8 0 0 0 8 1 2 8 .167
1950 62 175 10 26 1 1 0 10 3 20 10 .149
1951 23 61 1 9 1 0 0 10 0 8 3 .148

Sources

  1. {{cite web|title=Joan Holderness AAGPBL Player/Profile|url=http://www.aagpbl.org/index.cfm/profiles/holderness-joan/338|publisher=AAGPBL|accessdate=1 September 2014}}
  2. {{cite web|last1=Boring|first1=Frank|title=Holderness, Joan (Interview transcript and video 2010)|url=http://gvsu.cdmhost.com/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15068coll11/id/44/rec/8|publisher=Digital Collections|accessdate=1 September 2014}}
1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.aagpbl.org/index.cfm/articles/holderness-joan-3-17-1933--7-6-2017/419|title=Joan, Holderness, Death, Obituary|website=www.aagpbl.org|access-date=2018-06-06}}
{{All-American Girls Professional Baseball League|state=collapsed}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Holderness, Joan}}

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