Lois Bellman
alchunas(September 11, 1926 – October 17, 2015) was an
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) was a professional women's baseball league founded by Philip K. Wrigley, which existed from 1943 to 1954. The AAGPBL is the forerunner of women's professional league sports in the Uni ...
player. Bellman batted and threw right handed. She was dubbed ''Punky''.
Born in
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of Unite ...
, Bellman joined the league with the
Chicago Colleens club in its 1949 season. She did not have individual records or some information was incomplete.
Sources
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Lois Balchunas Retrieved 2019-03-26.
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Madden, W. C. (2000) ''All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book''. McFarland & Company.
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Madden, W. C. (2005) ''The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A Biographical Dictionary'' (2005).
21st-century American women
1926 births
2015 deaths
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players
baseball players from Chicago
Chicago Colleens players
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