Betty McKenna
| Betty McKenna | ||
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Runs batted in | 42 | |
| Games played | 166 | |
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Betty McKenna [Mac] (May 31, 1931 – February 24, 1992) was a
.A solid all-around athlete, McKenna got off to a slow start in the AAGPBL in her rookie season. She entered the league in 1951 with the Fort Wayne Daisies, playing for them in a few games before joining the Peoria Redwings during the midseason and ending the year with the Battle Creek Belles, batting .151 in 61 games, including six doubles and one triple.
After hitting .077 in 1952 in just 61 games, McKenna moved with the Belles when they relocated to
runs batted in (28), stolen bases
(16) and games (94). Still only 22 years old, she was becoming a full-pledged star player, but the Belles, after two championship titles in the 1940s and two reincarnations in the 1950s, folded after 1953 season while the BBGPBL, too, folded a year later.
McKenna died in Ohio at the age of 60.
Sources
- Encyclopedia of women and baseball - Leslie A. Heaphy, Mel Anthony May. Publisher: McFarland & Co., 2006. Format: Paperback, 438 pp. Language: English. ISBN 978-0-7864-2100-8
- The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A biographical dictionary - W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Co., 1997. Format: Paperback, 295 pp. Language: English. ISBN 978-0-7864-0304-2