Betty Carveth
Betty Carveth | |||
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All-American Girls Professional Baseball League | |||
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Born: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | |||
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Betty Carveth [Dunn] is a former Canadian pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1945 season. She batted and threw right handed.[1]
Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Betty Carveth was one of the 57 players born in Canada to join the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in its twelve years history.
In her only season Carveth posted a combined 4-11 record and a 2.28 earned run average in 21 games for the Rockford Peaches (1945) and the Fort Wayne Daisies. During the best-of-five playoff series, she lost an 11-inning pitching duel with Racine Belles' Doris Barr.[2]
In 1998, she garnered honorary induction in the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. She also 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.[3]
Betty Carveth Dunn still lives in Edmonton and has continued to be involved by awarding an annual $2000 scholarship which is named in her honour and shared with Millie Warwick McAuley, other Canadian who played in the AAGPBL. The scholarship is awarded in Alberta to a young female baseball player who combines excellence on the diamond, in the classroom and in the community. Betty and Millie also were Special Ambassadors during the first-ever World Cup of Women's Baseball held at Edmonton in 2004.[4][5][6]
Career statistics
Pitching
GP | W | L | W-L% | ERA | IP | H | RA | ER | BB | SO | HBP | WP | WHIP |
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21 | 4 | 11 | .267 | 2.28 | 138 | 116 | 57 | 35 | 47 | 28 | 0 | 3 | 1.18 |
Batting
GP | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | BA | OBP |
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21 | 47 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | .149 | .231 |
Fielding
GP | PO | A | E | TC | DP | FA |
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21 | 6 | 63 | 9 | 78 | 0 | .885 |
Sources
- 1 2 "All-American Girls Professional Baseball League official website – Betty Dunn (Carveth) profile".
- ↑ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W.C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000. Format: Hardcover, 294pp. ISBN 0-7864-0597-X
- ↑ Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame – 1998 Inductees Archived March 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Daily Herald Tribune – Betty Carveth (Dunn) still throwing sliders a half-century on. Article by Fred Rinne
- ↑ Baseball-Alberta.com – EIBF Millie Warwick McAuley/Betty Carveth Dunn Bursary
- ↑ Edmonton International Baseball Foundation – 2000 IBAF World Junior AAA Baseball Championship Archived June 10, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book