Joyce Messenger

{{Short description|American baseball player}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

| name= Joyce Messenger

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

| position= Infield utility

| birth_date= August 7, 1931

| birth_place= Lansing, Michigan

| death_date= September 14, 2015 (aged 84)

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| bats= Right

| throws= Right

| teams=

• Grand Rapids Chicks (1953)

| highlights=

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

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Joyce Ann Messenger (August 7, 1931 – September 14, 2015){{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/lsj/obituary.aspx?n=joyce-messenger&pid=175861536&fhid=12964|title=Joyce Messenger|publisher=Lansing State Journal|accessdate=28 July 2019}} was an infielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.[http://www.aagpbl.org/index.cfm/profiles/messinger-joyce/511 Profile]

According to All-American League data, Messinger played for the Grand Rapids Chicks club during its 1953 season. Additional information is incomplete because there are no records available at the time of the request.Madden, W. C. (2000) All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book. McFarland & Company. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-0597-8}}

In 1988 was inaugurated a permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York, that honors those who were part of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Joyce Messinger, along with the rest of the girls 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. Retrieved on September 5, 2016.