- Melba Alspaugh
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Melba Alspaugh All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Outfielder Born: 1925
Wichita, KansasDied: February 16, 1983 (aged 58)
Wichita, KansasBats: Right Throws: Right Teams - Fort Wayne Daisies (1948[start])
- Rockford Peaches (1948[end]-1949[start])
- Muskegon Lassies (1949[end])
Career highlights and awards - Championship team (1948)
Melba Irene Alspaugh (1925 – February 16, 1983) was a backup outfielder who played from 1948 through 1949 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She batted and threw right handed.[1]
Born in Wichita, Kansas, Alspaugh was a light hitting outfielder with good defense and a strong throwing arm. She entered the league in 1948 with the Fort Wayne Daisies, playing for them in part of the season before joining the Rockford Peaches at the end of the year, in time to become a member of the champion team.[2]
In the 1948 playoffs, Rockford swept the Kenosha Comets in the first round of the best-of-five series, and also swept the Racine Belles in the second round of the best-of-five series. The Peaches then went on to win the Championship Title, beating the Daisies in the best-of-seven series, four to one games. Alspaugh hit .240 in eight playoff games (6-for-25), including a double and one stolen base, while driving in one run and scoring four times. She opened 1949 with Rockford, but was traded to the Muskegon Lassies during the midseason.[3]
Alspaugh died in her hometown of Wichita, Kansas, at the age of 58.[4]
Career statistics
Batting
GP AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO BA OBP 112 297 41 59 1 0 0 19 40 29 46 .199 .270 Fielding
GP PO A E TC DP FA 99 104 10 5 119 2 .968 Sources
- ^ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League website – Melba Alspaugh entry
- ^ Intelius.com/Melba I. Alspaugh/Wichita, KS
- ^ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000. Format: Paperback, 294pp. Language: English. ISBN 0786437472
- ^ Midwest Historical and Genealogical Society. Wichita, Kansas. Index of Wichita Eagle/Beacon Obituaries, 1983
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Teams Battle Creek Belles • Chicago Colleens • Fort Wayne Daisies • Grand Rapids Chicks • Kalamazoo Lassies • Kenosha Comets • Milwaukee Chicks • Minneapolis Millerettes
• Muskegon Belles • Muskegon Lassies • Peoria Redwings • Racine Belles • Rockford Peaches • South Bend Blue Sox • Springfield SalliesAwards and Recognitions All-Star Team • Player of the Year • Batting records • Pitching records
Articles related A League of Their Own • List of managers • Arthur Meyerhoff • Philip K. Wrigley
Categories:- All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players
- American baseball players
- Baseball players from Kansas
- People from Wichita, Kansas
- 1925 births
- 1983 deaths
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