All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Player of the Year Award

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Starting in the 1945 season, on its third year of operation, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League honored with the Player of the Year Award the top performer in the circuit. The AAGPBL folded at the end of the 1954 season. This is the list of winners.

Winners

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Player!!Team!!Position!!Highlights
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|1945

  Connie Wisniewski    Grand Rapids Chicks  Pitcher32–11, 0.81 earned run average
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|1946

Sophie KurysRacine BellesSecond base.286 batting average, 117 runs, 201 stolen bases
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|1947

Doris SamsMuskegon Lassies  Pitcher / Outfield  11–4, 0.98 ERA / .280 BA
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|1948

Audrey WagnerKenosha CometsOutfield  .312 BA, 56 runs batted in, 70 runs, 53 SB, .469 slugging average  
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|1949

Doris SamsMuskegon LassiesPitcher / Outfield15–10, 1.58 ERA / .279 BA, 35 R, 35 RBI, 29 SB
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|1950

Alma ZieglerGrand Rapids ChicksPitcher19–7, 1.38 ERA
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|1951

Jean FautSouth Bend Blue SoxPitcher15–7, 1.33 ERA, 135 strikeouts, one perfect game
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|1952

Betty FossFort Wayne DaisiesFirst base.331 BA, .505 SLG, 74 RBI, 81 runs, 56 SB
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|1953

Jean FautSouth Bend Blue SoxPitcher17–11, 1.51 ERA, 143 SO, one perfect game
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|1954

Joanne WeaverFort Wayne DaisiesOutfield.429 BA, 29 home runs, 87 RBI, 109 runs, .763 SLG

See also

Sources

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20120118014313/http://www.aagpbl.org/ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Official Website]
  • All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000. Format: Paperback, 294pp. Language: English. {{ISBN|0-7864-3747-2}}

 

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Player of the Year

Category:Baseball most valuable player awards

Category:Most valuable player awards

Category:Sports awards honoring women

Category:Awards established in 1945

Category:1945 establishments in the United States

Category:1954 disestablishments in the United States

Category:Awards disestablished in 1954