Eve Mytrysak

{{Short description|American baseball player}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

| name= Eve Mytrysak

| birth_name=Wywilia Carolyn Mytrysak

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| team= {{small|All-American Girls Professional Baseball League}}

| position= Pitcher

| birth_date= September 17, 1924

| birth_place=Homer City, Pennsylvania

| death_date= {{dda|1996|2|11|1924|9|17}}

| death_place=Munhall, Pennsylvania

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• Muskegon Lassies (1949)

| highlights=

• Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (unveiled in 1988)

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Wywilia Carolyn "Vi" Mytrysak{{refn|group= note|name=name|She is misidentified as "Vivian Mystrysak" by All-American Girls Professional Baseball League website. Through the 1930 Census, the family name was transcribed variously as Mytryck, Matrisok, Mytrisak, and Mytryrzak.}} (September 17, 1924 – February 11, 1996),Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014. Social Security Administration. known as Eve Mytrysak, was an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player.[http://www.aagpbl.org/index.cfm/profiles/mystrysak-vivian/510 Profile]. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League website

In September 1948, Mytrysak made her debut for the co-ed Waterman Baseball Club in Indiana, Pennsylvania, part of the Rochester and Pittsburgh Baseball League, as the first female pitcher in the county.{{cite news|title=Eve Mytrysak Makes Hurling Debut Sunday|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/15729288/|work=The Indiana Gazette|date=September 17, 1948|page=15|language=en}}{{cite news|title=Eve Mytrysak Pitches As Waterman Baseball Club Defeats Kinlock|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/14248662/?terms=Mytrysak%2Bbaseball|work=The Indiana Gazette|date=September 20, 1948|page=24|language=en}} Mytrysak played for the Muskegon Lassies club in its 1949 season.Madden, W. C. (2000) All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book. McFarland & Company. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-0597-8}}

Mytrysak was born in Homer City, Pennsylvania, one of 10 children born to Paul Mytrysak, a coal miner, and Katerina "Kata" Urban, ethnic Ukrainians born in 19th-century Poland who immigrated to the United States in 1907 and 1910, respectively.1930 United States Census Her brother John Mytrysak, her teammate on the Waterman team, was drafted by the New York Giants in 1949 and played in the minor leagues.{{cite news|title=Obituary for John Mytrysak|url=http://www.shoemakerfh-monuments.com/memsol.cgi?user_id=1857045|publisher=Shoemaker Funeral Home, Inc.|date=September 25, 2016}}{{dead link|date=December 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{cite web|title=John Mytrysak Minor Leagues Statistics & History |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=mytrys001joh|publisher=Baseball-Reference.com|accessdate=July 31, 2017|language=en}}

She married Stephen Zeransky, with whom she had sons Tom, Ed and Stephen, Jr. She owned Vi's Pizza in Munhall, Pennsylvania. She died in 1996.{{cite news|title=Wywilia (Vi) (Mytrysak) Zeransky|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/89844210/?terms=Zeransky|work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=February 13, 1996|page=49|language=en}}

In 1988, a permanent display was inaugurated at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York that honors those who were part of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Mytrysak, along with the rest of the women and the league staff, is included at the display/exhibit.[http://baseballhall.org/discover/baseball-history/there-is-crying-in-baseball Before A League of Their Own]. National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum