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Alta Weiss Hisrich (February 9, 1890 – February 12, 1964), born Alta Weiss, was an American minor league baseball
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from
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who drew large crowds to exhibition games at
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and major league venues in the US state of Ohio and
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. She was a semiprofessional female baseball player who went on to become a
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Early life

Born in 1890 in Berlin, Holmes County, Ohio, she was the daughter of Dr. George and Lucinda Zehnder Weiss. When she was five years old the family moved to Ragersville.Ragersville, in
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, is
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and east-northeast of
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Later career

She was the only female to graduate Starling Medical College with the class of 1914. Weiss married John E. Hisrich in 1926; they separated in 1944. She died in 1964 in Ragersville, Ohio, just three days after her 74th birthday."Alta W. Hisrich Dies at Dover." ''Coshocton (OH) Tribune'', February 13, 1964, p. 13.


Honors

A picture-story book for children ''Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings'', by
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, with illustrations by Terry Widener, was published in 2003 ().The book was awarded a Jan Addams honor award for illustration in 2004. See On October 20, 2004, she was inducted into the Ragersville Hall of Fame. Her uniform was sent to the
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in
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for exhibition in a
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exhibit that opened in 2005.


See also

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– pitched for the
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briefly in 1931, then later with the House of David *
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– pitched for the
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in the 1953–1955 seasons *
Ila Borders Ila Jane Borders (born February 18, 1975), is a former left-handed pitcher in college and independent professional baseball player. As a female pitcher in men's leagues, Borders achieved numerous baseball milestones at the college and professiona ...
– pitched for the
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starting in 1997 then several other teams and retired from minor league baseball in 2000 *
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starting in the 2009 season and the
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in the 2010 season * Tiffany Brooks *
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Toni Stone Toni Stone (July 17, 1921 – November 2, 1996), born as Marcenia Lyle Stone in West Virginia,Rosengren, John (Summer 2019)"EYEWITNESS: Tomboy Stone" ''Minnesota History''. 66(6): 232 – via JSTOR. was the first of three women to play professio ...
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References

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