Betty Jane Fritz (October 14, 1924 – August 11, 1994) was a

center fielder A center fielder, abbreviated CF, is the outfielder in baseball who plays defense in center field – the baseball and softball fielding position between left field and right field. In the numbering system used to record defensive plays, the c ...

who played in the

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during the season. Listed at , 130 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.Betty Jane Fritz
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Oshkosh, Wisconsin Oshkosh is a city in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, of which it is the county seat. The city had a population of 66,816 in 2020, making it the ninth-largest city in Wisconsin. It is also adjacent to the Town of Oshkosh. History Oshkosh was ...

, Fritz was one of the sixty founding members of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. A good-hitting outfielder, she played one season for the

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, a team managed by Eddie Stumpf. She batted a .210 average and tied for eighth in the league for the most

runs batted in A run batted in (RBI; plural RBIs ) is a statistic in baseball and softball that credits a batter for making a play that allows a run to be scored (except in certain situations such as when an error is made on the play). For example, if the bat ...

(43). Besides this, she tied

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of the South Bend Blue Sox for the most outfield assists (17), being surpassed only by

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Eleanor Dapkus Eleanor V. Wolf (née Eleanore Dapkus; December 5, 1923 – June 6, 2011) was a center fielder and pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Early years Dapkus was born to Lithuanian parents, ...

(19).''All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book'' – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000. Format: Paperback, 294pp. Language: English.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fritz, Betty Jane All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players Rockford Peaches players Baseball players from Wisconsin Sportspeople from Oshkosh, Wisconsin 1924 births 1994 deaths 20th-century American women 20th-century American people