Edna Dummerth

{{Short description|American baseball player}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

| name=Edna Frank Dummerth

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| team=All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

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| birth_date={{birth date|1924|06|15}}

| birth_place=St. Louis, Missouri

| death_date={{death date and age|2017|10|8|1924|06|15}}

| death_place=St. Louis, Missouri

| bats=Right

| throws=Right

| teams =

• Minneapolis Millerettes (1944)
• Racine Belles (1944)

|highlights=

}}

Edna Dummerth (née Frank; June 15, 1924 – October 8, 2017) played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1944.[http://www.aagpbl.org/profiles/edna-frank-dummerth-frankie/392 Edna Dummerth – Profile / Obituary]. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Retrieved 2019-04-13. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri and known by her nickname "Frankie".

Dummerth got into the game during her high school years where she earned a reputation for being a good catcher.{{citation needed|date=August 2014}} Thereafter, when she was 20 she started playing for the Minneapolis Millerettes{{cite book|title=Baseball in Minnesota: The Definitive History|author=Stew Thornley|isbn=0-87351-551-X|year=2006|publisher=The Minnesota Historical Society Press}}{{cite news|url=http://forgottenminnesota.com/blog/2014/06/dirt-on-their-skirts-the-minneapolis-millerettes|title=Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes|date=2014-06-27|accessdate=2019-04-02|archive-date=2019-03-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331115547/http://forgottenminnesota.com/blog/2014/06/dirt-on-their-skirts-the-minneapolis-millerettes|url-status=dead}} and then, in the same year, for the Racine Belles. She both threw and batted right-handed. After playing just 16 games, she left the League and joined the United States Navy. After leaving the navy she married Robert A. Dummerth and had eight children.[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/stltoday/obituary.aspx?n=edna-v-dummerth&pid=186908378&fhid=5885 Edna Dummerth Obituary]

In 1989 Dummerth was honored by the St. Louis Cardinals.{{cite book|title=The Origins and History of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League|author=Merrie A. Fidler|year=2006|isbn=978-1-4766-0428-2|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.}}

Dummerth died on October 8, 2017.