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Thelma Walmsley
Thelma Jo Walmsley (1918–1997) was a Canadian baseball and softball player. Walmsley played for the Racine Belles of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) in the 1946 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League season, 1946 season. Prior to her stint with the Racine Belles, Walmsley played for the Montreal Royals of the Montreal Major Ladies' Softball League. In 1998, Walmsley was one of the Canadian women who played in the AAGPBL who were inducted as a group into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. Her Racine Belles jacket is held in the collection of the Greater Sudbury Heritage Museums, Copper Cliff Museum in Walmsley's hometown of Copper Cliff, Ontario, Copper Cliff, Ontario. Greater Sudbury Heritage Museums. References
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Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on the batting team, called the batter, tries to hit with a bat. The objective of the offensive team (batting team) is to hit the ball into the field of play, away from the other team's players, allowing its players to run the bases, having them advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are called " runs". The objective of the defensive team (referred to as the fielding team) is to prevent batters from becoming runners, and to prevent runners' advance around the bases. A run is scored when a runner legally advances around the bases in order and touches home plate (the place where the player started as a batter). The principal objective of the batting team is to have a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
