Johanna Hageman

{{Infobox baseball biography

| name=Johanna Hageman

| image=Johanna Hageman.jpg

| image_size=200px

| caption=

| team=All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

| position=First base / Chaperone

| birth_date={{birth date|1918|12|17}}

| birth_place=Chicago, Illinois

| death_date={{death_date and age|1984|02|10|1918|12|17}}

| death_place=Chicago, Illinois

| bats=Right

| throws=Right

| teams =

• South Bend Blue Sox (1943–1944)
• Kenosha Comets (1945/1946–1949)

|highlights=

• Single season leader in fielding average (1943)
• Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display at Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)

}}

Johanna Hageman [Hargraves] (December 17, 1918 – February 10, 1984) was a first base player and chaperone in All-American Girls Professional Baseball League between the {{baseball year|1943}} and {{baseball year|1949}} seasons. Listed at {{height|ft=5|in=9}}, 155 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.[http://www.aagpbl.org/profiles/johanna-hageman-hargraves-jo/5 Johanna Hargraves]. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Retrieved 2019-04-13.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}}

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Johanna Hageman was one of the sixty original members of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The circuit operated from 1943 through 1954 and started with four teams: the Racine Belles and the Kenosha Comets, both from Wisconsin; the Rockford Peaches from Illinois, and the South Bend Blue Sox from Indiana. League play officially began on May 30, 1943 and each team was made up of fifteen girls.[http://www.aagpbl.org/history/league-history League History]. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Retrieved 2019-04-13.

In the inaugural season, Hageman was the best fielder at first base while playing for the Blue Sox. She compiled a .983 average, after committing only 21 errors in 1,178 fielding chances. She also hit .225 with a .319 on-base percentage and a .295 slugging in 108 games, ending third in the league for the most doubles (10), sixth in runs batted in (45) and tenth in hits (85).All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book[http://www.aagpbl.org/teams/south-bend-blue-sox/1943 1943 South Bend Blue Sox]. Retrieved 2019-04-13.

In 1944, Hageman batted just .142 in a career-high 116 games, but kept her good defense at first with a .982 mark. The next season she was traded to Kenosha and slumped to .117 in 96 games, even though she posted a .983 fielding average. She went on to play four more seasons with Kenosha from 1946 through 1949.[http://www.aagpbl.org/teams/south-bend-blue-sox/1944 1944 South Bend Blue Sox]. Retrieved 2019-04-13.[http://www.aagpbl.org/teams/kenosha-comets/1945 1945 Kenosha Comets]. Retrieved 2019-04-13.

Hageman died in Chicago, Illinois at the age of 65. Four years after her death, she became part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled in {{baseball year|1988}} to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.