Dolores Moore

Dolores Moore
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
First base / Second base
Born: October 27, 1932(1932-10-27) Chicago, Illinois
Died: August 31, 2000(2000-08-31) (aged 67) Bensenville, Illinois
Bats: Right	Throws: Right
Teams
Grand Rapids Chicks (1953-1954)
Career highlights and awards
Championship team (1953) All-Star Game (1954)

Dolores Moore [″Dee″] (October 27, 1932 – August 31, 2000) was an infielder who played from 1953 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 7", 153 lb., she batted and threw right handed.^[1][2]

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Eleanor Moore enjoyed playing sandlot baseball with her brother Tom when she was five years old. Later during her youth she was playing at Hubble Park, where future Hall of Fame Rogers Hornsby told her she should play in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, but she was too young for league, though.^[3]

When Moore turned 16, she was recruited by the league, but her mother would not let her go because of all the travel. She instead gained experience in the National Girls Baseball League of Chicago during four years, where legendary athlete Jesse Owens presented her with the league's Most Valuable Player Award in 1952. By then, Woody English went to the AAGPBL as a manager with the Grand Rapids Chicks and invited her to come along.^[3][4]

In 1953 Moore became a member of the Chicks, playing for them at first base and second base depending on her team's needs. A solid hitter and fielder, in one game she drove in six runs. She helped Grand Rapids win the Championship Title in that season, batting five hits with four RBI in six playoff games. As a member of the champion team, she faced the All-Star team in the 1954 All-Star Game.^[5][6]

After the league folded in 1954, Moore received a contract to play with the Bill Allington All-Stars traveling team, but she turned it down because she went to work and started playing other sports. She then joined the Refiner's Pride, a women's professional basketball team that played exhibition games against the Harlem Globetrotters and various NBA teams. She also worked for the Chicago Department of Education as a playground teacher during 31 years before retiring in 1993. In the interim, she participated in bowling, golf and fishing activities. After retiring, she voluntereed at a local hospital.^[3]

Dolores Moore 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. She died in Bensenville, Illinois, at the age of 67.^[4][7]

Statistics

Batting

GP	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP
149	477	46	114	8	0	3	57	10	33	39	.239	.288

Fielding

GP	PO	A	E	TC	DP	FA
135	921	105	27	1053	64	.974

^[3]

Sources

1. ^ 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 0786437472
2. ^ "All-American Girls Professional Baseball League website – Dolores Moore entry". http://www.aagpbl.org/players/index.cfm?do=player.details&playerid=163. 
3. ^ ^{a b c d} The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
4. ^ ^{a b} "Chicago Sun Times – Dolores Moore obituary". http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4555571.html. 
5. ^ 1953 Grand Rapids Chicks
6. ^ 1954 AAGPBL All-Star Team
7. ^ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League History

Persondata
Name	Moore, Dolores
Alternative names
Short description	All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
Date of birth	October 27, 1932
Place of birth	Chicago, Illinois
Date of death	August 31, 2000
Place of death	Bensenville, Illinois