Dottie Green

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Dottie Green
Runs batted in
43
Teams
Career highlights and awards
  • All Star Team chaperone (1952)
  • Championship Team (1945)
  • Season-leader in fielding average (1944)
  • One of three women to appear in all 12 seasons of the league

Dorothy M. "Dottie" Green (April 30, 1921 – October 26, 1992) was an American professional baseball

Dottie Kamenshek
.

Early life

A native of

semi-professional softball women's team that played in the Boston Garden. Walter Brown, the original owner of the Boston Celtics, organized the team as a means of having a weekly sports program during the summer months. Games were scheduled with teams from the New England area, the highlight being a game scheduled with teams from the New York area at Madison Square Garden.[1]

In February 1943, Green knew that

military draft was depleting Major League rosters of first-line players. Green was one of three Olympettes recruited by the new league, along with Maddy English and Mary Pratt. Green and Pratt were assigned to the Rockford Peaches; English to the Racine Belles. Another two teams, the Kenosha Comets and South Bend Blue Sox, completed the original roster of the league.[2]

AAGPBL career

Green was one of four catchers for Rockford in the 1943 season. hit a .164 batting average in 48 games, while the Peaches finished in last place with a 55–90 record. At the end of the season, the Belles defeated Kenosha in a best-of-five series to become the first Champions in All-American Girls history.

Green saw more action in 1944, appearing in 98 games while hitting .145 with a career-high 23 stolen bases. She also led all catchers with a .962 fielding percentage (18 errors in 477 chances). In 1945 she hit .145 and posted a .966 fielding percentage, while the Peaches, with Bill Allington at the helm, defeated Grand Rapids in the first round of the playoffs and dispatched Fort Wayne, 4 to 1 games, to clinch the Championship Title.

In 1946, Green dropped to .116 but again showed her solid defense with a .958 fielding average. For the second consecutive year, Rockford reached the playoffs, but lost in the first round to Grand Rapids, 3 games to 2. In 1947 she batted .115 in only 14 games, before suffering a serious knee injury which ended her career. After her playing days were over, she became a AAGPBL

1B/chaperone) and Dorothy Schroeder (SS) as the only girls to participate in all 12 seasons for the league. The Rockford Peaches and South Bend Blue Sox also were the two teams to be active in every AAGPBL season.[3][4]

Career statistics

Batting

GP AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB TB BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS
280 767 73 107 9 6 1 43 44 131 103 127 .140 .241 .171 .412

Fielding

G
PO
 A E TC DP FA
280 1129 151 55 1355 19 .957

[5]

Life after baseball

The off season found Green managing and operating a dry cleaning plant. She also was an accomplished musician, playing trumpet and harmonica. She died at her home in Natick, Massachusetts at the age of 71. Her siblings were with her as she passed from natural causes.[6]

Green appeared in Ken Burns's 1994 documentary Baseball where she discussed her experiences playing professional baseball.

Facts

Players Association

When the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League was unable to continue in 1955, its history and its significance were soon forgotten. Many people in the 1950s thought that women were not supposed to play baseball, so most female athletes competed on other fields of endeavor. Finally, in 1980, former pitcher

Chicago, Illinois
in 1982. Starting from that reunion, a Players Association was formed five years later and many former players of the defunct league continued to enjoy reunions.

Hall of Fame honors

The AAGPBL Players Association movement helped to bring the league story to the public eye. The association was largely responsible for the opening of a permanent display at the

Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York
since November 5, 1988 that honors those who were part of this unique experience.

A League of Their Own

filmmaker Penny Marshall seemed to be aiming for realism, as her film includes fake newsreel footage and pseudo-documentary present day scenes at the beginning and end of the fictitious story. Although Dottie Green had the same first name, and played the same position on the same team as the character Dottie Hinson portrayed by Geena Davis in the film, that was merely a coincidence, according to those familiar with the All American Girls Professional Baseball League, including Kelly Candaele, one of the five sons of Helen Callaghan, who in 1945 won the AAGPBL batting championship with a .299 average. A League of Their Own itself was inspired by the 1987 documentary of the same title, written and produced by Candaele, who also collaborated with Kim Wilson in the story for the film. The AAGPBL players were relatively unknown until the Marshall's film was exhibited for the first time. After that, the AAGPBL Players Association reunions became formal annual events in 1998.[7][8]

Sources

References

  1. ^ "Dottie Green - 1945 Rockford Peaches". Archived from the original on January 10, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2016 – via flickr.
  2. ^ Bernstein, Sam (2008), "Pratt, Mary", Society for American Baseball Research, archived from the original on September 19, 2017, retrieved December 27, 2016
  3. ^ Dorothy Green – Biography / Obituary Archived 2019-04-01 at the Wayback Machine. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
  4. ^ "League History", All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, archived from the original on 2019-03-02, retrieved 2019-04-10
  5. ^ "AAGPBL Dottie Green", Encyclopedia of Baseball Catchers, July 14, 2012, archived from the original on July 14, 2012, retrieved April 10, 2019{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. ^ Thomas, Robert McG. Jr. (October 28, 1992), "Dottie Green, a Baseball Pioneer In Women's League, Dies at 71", New York Times, archived from the original on December 28, 2016, retrieved December 27, 2016
  7. ^ Wilson, Mary (Writer/Director) (1987). A League of Their Own (Documentary). Archived from the original on February 9, 2017. Retrieved December 27, 2016 – via IMDb.
  8. ^ Marshall, Penny (Director) (1992). A League of Their Own (Motion picture). Archived from the original on February 22, 2019. Retrieved December 27, 2016 – via IMDb.
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