Amy Shuman

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Amy Shuman/Jurasinski [nee Dunkleberger] (March 10, 1925 – August 22, 2014) was an American baseballer. Amy played in the

Early love for ball

Amy was born in Mohrsville, Pennsylvania, to parents Earl and Pearl (Gerber) Dunkleberger. From age 8, Amy played baseball everyday on her family's farm, with Dorothy, Elaine and Charles, her older siblings. In later years, her younger siblings – Doris and Gladys – also joined in. All the kids were encouraged to play and develop their baseball skills by their father who would play with them when he could. Her mother on the other hand, “would get mad when [they] played all day and not do the chores she wanted us to do,” Nonetheless, every kid from the neighborhood would come most days to the field to play too.

After graduating Ontelaunee High School in 1942, Amy worked for the

While playing in the AAGPBL, Amy made $65 a week but was disappointed that she did not get to play so much in the exhibitions as she was a rookie. Nonetheless, she got to play catch a lot with South Bend's manager Chet Grant.

Post-baseball

After she returned home she missed her professional baseball league days, but, more upsetting was that she had to "look for a job." In 1947 she started work for the Berkshire Knitting Mills, as a

She died on August 22, 2014, in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, at the age of 89.^[1]

Sources

1. AAGPBL ^[2] 2. SABR ^[3]