Ann Cindric
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Ann Cindrić [tsindrich] (September 5, 1922 – December 18, 2010) was a
Born in
Cindrić entered the AAGPBL with the Muskegon Lassies in 1948, appearing for them in just three games before her season was cut short by a chipped bone in one of her fingers. She did appear in a game when the team moved to Springfield, Illinois in 1949 and was renamed the Springfield Sallies.[4]
Cindrić returned with the Sallies in 1950, when they joined the Chicago Colleens as touring player development teams. In her final season, she posted a 3–2 record and a .231 batting average for Springfield before another finger injury ended her baseball career.[4]
Following her baseball career, Cindrić worked at Lafayette Manor Inc., Uniontown, while playing softball in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.[3] Cindrić later spent five years in the Dominican missionary convent and worked as a Dominican Missionary Sister in a nursing home office until her retirement.[3]
Besides sports, Cindrić really enjoyed playing the button box accordion and guitar in her leisure time, playing the button box with the International Button Box Club.[3]
Since 1988, Cindrić is part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the
Ann Cindrić died in
External links
- Ann Cindric at SABR (Baseball BioProject)
Sources
- ^ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Ann Cindrić. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
- ISBN 0-7864-3747-2
- ^ a b c d e "Croatian-Genealogy.com – Cindrić family name, its origin, history and frequency". 17 October 2013.
- ^ a b The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League