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Betty "Fossey" Weaver-Foss (May 10, 1929 – February 8, 1998) was an
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and
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who played from through in the
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. Listed at , 180 lb., she was a
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and threw
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. She started her career as Betty Weaver but changed her last name to Foss after marrying. Her younger sisters,
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and Joanne, also played in the league.Betty Foss – Biography / Obituary
. ''
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''. Retrieved 2019-04-12.


Overview profile

Foss enjoyed an outstanding career during the final five years of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She won batting titles in back-to-back seasons in 1950 and 1951 and consistently ranked among the top 10 sluggers and best base stealers. ''Fossie'', as friends and fans often called her, was a steady and productive hitter, a solid and speedy
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, and a skilled defender at
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. Gifted with a keen eye and a quick swing, she posted a .342
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in 498 games, being surpassed only by her younger sister Joanne, who set an all-time record with a .359 mark. Besides scoring 401 runs and driving in another 312 runs, Foss topped the league in doubles three times. She holds the single-season records for
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, doubles and
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, and also set a record for career doubles (117). She collected 294 stolen bases and is only one of six players to have hit 30 or more career
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s (32). Her career .963
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as an
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would have been higher except for her rookie season at
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, when she committed 47
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in 374 chances. Her fielding average at first base and in the outfield never dropped below .964. A two-time All-Star, she won the Rookie of the Year (1950) and
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(1952) awards, combining with her sister Joanne to capture the final five batting championships of the league. Her playing accomplishments helped her club to make the playoffs in these years and win three straight AAGPBL pennants beginning in 1952.Biographical Dictionary of American Sports


Early life

A native of
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, Betty began playing
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with her younger sisters at a very early age. Their father, former minor league ballplayer Lloyd Weaver, tried to get them to play in a boys' baseball team without success. The sisters finally started to play fast-pitch softball on a regular basis. Determined to stay together, the trio played for the Magnavox softball team of the Chicago industrial league before joining the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. In 1950, a
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wanted to sign Betty to a
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contract, but at the same time she received a proposal from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League to play for the
Fort Wayne Daisies The Fort Wayne Daisies were a women's professional baseball team based in Fort Wayne, Indiana that played from through as members of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. History The Daisies represented Fort Wayne, Indiana, and ...
. She opted to stay in the women's league and joined the Fort Wayne team at the start of the 1950 season. The next season, Jean and Joanne would join the Daisies' roster.


AAGPBL career

As a rookie in 1950 Foss had a significant and immediate impact in the league. She won the batting title with a .346 average, and led all hitters with 24 doubles and a robust .471
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, 35 points ahead of
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. Foss also finished second with 125 hits (five behind Kurys), tied for third in home runs (five), finished fourth in
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(162) and
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(61), while tying for sixth in
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s (64) and for eighth in runs scored (64). She won the Rookie of the Year honors, but missed the All-Star Team in favor of Fern Shollenberger, an outstanding defender at third base who constantly paced the league in fielding percentage and number of
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s turned. Foss had increased success in her second season. After moving to first base in 1951, she won her second consecutive batting title with a .368 average, to become the first repeat batting champion in the league since Dorothy Kamenshek, who did it both in 1946 and 1947. Foss also led the league with 34 doubles and 176 total bases, and tied for first place in home runs (four) with
Eleanor Callow Eleanor 'Squirt' Callow (August 8, 1927 – October 28, 1974) was a left fielder who played from through for three teams of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Callow was a switch-hitter and threw right-handed. She was born in ...
and Alice Pollitt. She also finished fifth in RBI (78), seventh in stolen bases (60) and tied for fourth in runs (77), but again was denied an All-Star spot, this time to Kamenshek, a batting average runner-up in 1950 (.334) and 1951 (.335). Her 34 doubles in a season are the league record. In 1952, Foss received the highest honor of the league when she earned the
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. She led all batters in runs (81), hits (137), doubles (26), triples (17) and RBI (74), and was second in stolen bases (80), while hitting a solid .331 in 106 games to finish second in the batting race behind her sister Joanne (.344). Her 17 triples (more than the next two players combined) is a single-season record. Finally, she gained her first All-Star selection at first base. The All-Star team faced the
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, the league's 1951 playoff champions. The All-Stars prevailed, 7–6, when Foss scored the eventual winning run on an RBI-single by Doris Sams in the top of the 9th inning. Foss made her second straight All-Star appearance in 1953, and for the third consecutive year set a single-season mark after collecting 144 hits. She also led the league in stolen bases (80), in runs (99) for the second consecutive year, and in total bases (195) for the third year in a row. Besides this, she ended third in triples (seven), fifth in RBI (65) and sixth in home runs (five). For the first time in her career, she failed to lead the league in doubles. Foss hit 20 doubles, three behind leader
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. She dropped to a .321 average, while her sister Joanne won the title with a .346 mark. In 1954 Foss hit .352, ending fourth in the batting crown race, while her sister Joanne clinched the title for her third straight season with a .429 average, to become the only player in AAGPBL history to hit .400 or more in a regular season. Foss scored 80 runs, ending second to Joanne (109), and tied for sixth place with 13 doubles. She also finished second in stolen bases (34), fourth in hits (117) and fifth in total bases (172). The Fort Wayne Daisies advanced to the best-of-five game Championship Series. Previously in the playoffs, the
Kalamazoo Lassies The Kalamazoo Lassies were a team who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The team represented Kalamazoo, Michigan. Home games were initially played at Lindstrom Field, but later games were played at the ...
dispatched the
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in three games and Fort Wayne did the same with the
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.


1954 Championship Title

In Game 1 of the AAGPBL Series, the Kalamazoo Lassies defeated the Fort Wayne Daisies 17–9 behind a four-hit, seven strong innings from
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, who also helped herself by hitting 2-for-4, including one home run. Her teammates Carol Habben, Fern Shollenberger and
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, who hit a
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, also slugged one each.
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connected two home runs for the Daisies in a lost cause, and her teammate
Joanne Weaver Joanne "Joltin' Jo" Weaver (December 19, 1935 – March 19, 2000) was a right fielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , 142 lb., she batted and threw right-handed. Overview profile ...
slugged one. Pitching star Maxine Kline, who had posted an 18–7 record with 3.23 ERA during the regular season, gave up 11 runs in six innings and was credited with the loss. The Daisies evened the Series against the Lassies winning Game 2, 11–4, after hitting five home runs off two pitchers.
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started for Kalamazoo, but due to a mix-up over the game's starting time the
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did not allow her to
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(supposedly there would be a half hour delay). Starting cold, Cordes allowed five runs before getting a batter out. After a leadoff walk to
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, Horstman belted a home run for a 2–0 Fort Wayne lead. Then
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and Joanne Weaver hit back-to-back
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, and Betty Foss hit a three-run homer for a 5–0 edge. Elaine Roth relieved Cordes and completed the game. But the Lassies hit three more home runs, one each by Jean Geissinger and the Foss-Weaver sisters. Kalamazoo discounted the margin with leadoff homers by Nancy Mudge, Peppas (playing at first base) and
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, but the game's outcome was never in doubt. In Game 3, the Daisies won the Lassies, 8–7, fueled again by a heavy hitting by Joanne Weaver, who hit a double, a triple and a three-run home run in five at-bats, driving in four runs. Peppas went 1-for-4 to spark a seventh inning three-run rally, but Fort Wayne came back in the bottom of the inning with two runs that marked the difference. Cordes relieved with the bases loaded in the seventh inning but did not allow any damage for the remainder of the game. In other close scores, the Lassies evened the Series in Game 4 with a victory over the Daisies, 6–5. Cordes started again with her team against the wall, 2-to-1. This time properly warmed up, she hurled a
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, allowing five runs on nine hits. Habben drove in two runs who marked the difference, while Kline suffered her second loss of the Series. Peppas contributed with a single, a double and one RBI in four at-bats. In decisive Game 5, Peppas pitched a clutch complete game and went 3-for-5 with an RBI against her former Daisies team, winning by an 8–5 margin to give the Lassies the Championship title in the AAGPBL's last ever game. She received support from Balingall (3-for-4) and Schroeder, who drove in the winning run in the bottom of the eight. Peppas finished with a .450 average and collected two of the three Lassies victories, to become the winning pitcher of the last game in the league's history. In the end, the inspired Lassies rose to the challenge and batted a .337 average as a team. On the other hand, the usually heavy-hitting Daisies averaged only .275.


Bill Allington All-Stars

Once the league disbanded, Foss joined several other players selected by former Daisies manager
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to play in the national touring team known as the All-Americans All-Stars. The team played 100 games, each booked in a different town, against male teams, while traveling over 10,000 miles in the manager's
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and a
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. Besides Foss, the Allington All-Stars included players as
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,
Gloria Cordes Gloria Cordes Elliott (September 21, 1931 – March 13, 2018) was an American starting pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 8", 138 lb., she batted and threw right-handed. Ov ...
,
Jeanie Descombes Jeneane Descombes Lesko (born March 28, 1935) is a former pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , 135 lb., she batted and threw left-handed. She played under the name of Jeanie (or ...
, Gertrude Dunn,
Mary Froning Mary Froning (later O'Meara; August 26, 1934 – November 2, 2014) was an outfielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , 118 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.< ...
, Jean Geissinger,
Katie Horstman Catherine Horstman Horsey″(born April 14, 1935) is a former female utility player who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , 150 lb., she batted and threw right-handed. Overview profile ...
, Maxine Kline, Dolores Lee,
Magdalen Redman Magdalen "Mamie" Redman (July 2, 1930 – August 22, 2020) was a catcher and utility infielder who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , 150 lb., she batted and threw right-handed. Early ...
,
Ruth Richard Ruth Richard '' ichie' (September 20, 1928 – May 6, 2018) was an American baseball player who played as a catcher from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 4", 134 lb., she batted left-handed and th ...
,
Dorothy Schroeder Dorothy "Dottie" Schroeder (April 11, 1928 – December 8, 1996) was an American shortstop who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , 150 lb., Schroeder batted and threw right-handed. She w ...
,
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, Dolly Vanderlip, and her younger sister, Joanne, among others.


Life after baseball

Foss returned to
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to work for a
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company until retiring in 1994. She later moved back to her hometown of
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, where she died three years later at the age of 68, following complications related to
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(
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's disease), the same disease which would claim Joanne's life in March 2000.


Career statistics

Batting Fielding


Facts


A team record

The sisters Foss-Weaver were able to win the final five batting championships of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. With Helen Callaghan winning the title in 1945, the Fort Wayne Daisies amassed six batting crowns to set a league record. But while Fort Wayne made the playoffs in the last seven seasons of the league, the team struggled in the post-season and never won a Championship Title. In 1952 and 1953, the Daisies were knocked out in the first round after posting the best regular-season record.


Players Association

When the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was unable to continue in 1955, its history and its significance were soon forgotten. Many people in the 1950s thought that women were not supposed to play baseball, so most female athletes competed in other fields of endeavor. Finally, in 1980, former pitcher
June Peppas June Peppas (June 16, 1929 – March 14, 2016) was a first basewoman and pitcher who played from 1948 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at , , she batted and threw left-handed. Early life Peppas was bor ...
launched a newsletter project to get in touch with friends, teammates, and opponents, that resulted in the league's first-ever reunion in
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in 1982. Starting from that reunion, a Players Association was formed five years later and many former players of the defunct league continued to enjoy reunions.


Hall of Fame honors

The AAGPBL Players Association movement helped to bring the league story to the public eye. The association was largely responsible for the opening of a permanent display at the
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in
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since November 5, 1988, that honors those who were part of this unique experience.


A League of Their Own

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''
A League of Their Own ''A League of Their Own'' is a 1992 American sports comedy drama film directed by Penny Marshall that tells a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL). It stars Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Ma ...
'' is about the first season of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. While the film does not use real names,
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seemed to be aiming for realism, as her film includes fake newsreel footage and pseudo-documentary ''present day'' scenes at the beginning and end of the fictitious story. ''A League of Their Own'' itself was inspired by the 1987 documentary of the same title, written and produced by Kelly Candaele, one of the five sons of the aforementioned Helen Callaghan. Candaele also collaborated with Kim Wilson in the story for the film. The AAGPBL players were relatively unknown until the Marshall's film was exhibited for the first time. In the AAGPBL Players Association annual reunions since 1998, it is usual to hear the original AAGPBL players singing ''We're the members of the All-American League. We come from cities near and far. We've got Canadians, Irish ones, and Swedes. We're all for one, we're one for all. We're all Americans''.


References

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