Betty Fountain (January 10, 1930 – November 2, 2015) was an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player.All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Betty Fountain
Retrieved 2019-04-02. Born in Rome, Georgia, Betty Fountain joined the league in its 1949 season and was assigned to the

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touring team. 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. After leaving the league she joined the

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and served as a

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. She then moved to Chicago with an army friend, and found work as a professional artist at Richard Rush Studios, where she met her husband Muneyoshi Yamakuchi. They married on October 7, 1967, and she became Betty Fountain Yamakuchi. She coached

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for decades afterward at Hamlin Park in Chicago, while running a commercial art studio and raising a family. In 2001 she returned to live in Rome, Georgia and subsequently published a book of art and poetry "Home Again". She died November 2, 2015, from complications of

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. 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. Betty Fountain, along with the rest of the girls and the league staff, is included at the display/exhibit.Before A League of Their Own
''National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum''. Retrieved September 5, 2016.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fountain, Betty All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players Springfield Sallies players Baseball players from Georgia (U.S. state) Sportspeople from Rome, Georgia 1930 births 2015 deaths 21st-century American women