Isora del Castillo
Isora del Castillo | |
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All-American Girls Professional Baseball League | |
Infielder | |
Born: Havana, Cuba | May 16, 1932|
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |
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Isora del Castillo [ee-soa'-ra del cast-ee'-yo] (born May 16, 1932) is a former infielder who played from 1949 through 1951 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 1", 117 lb., she batted and threw right handed.[1][2] She played under the name of Ysora Castillo, as a result of a misspelling.[3]
Born in
Isora learned her baseball skills from her father, Argelio del Castillo, a well-respected amateur
The first AAGPBL spring training outside the United States was held in Cuba in 1947, as part of a plan to create an International League of Girls Baseball. The experiment took shape when Cuban executives Alfonso Rodríguez and Rafael León and AAGPBL president Max Carey formed two teams, one called the Cubans and the other called the Americans. Both teams toured Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico and Venezuela, playing exhibition games with each other.[6] After that, Isora and her aforementioned fellows were contracted by the AAGPBL between 1948 and 1949.[7]
She was assigned to the Chicago Colleens development team in 1949.[8] The next season, she gained promotion to the Kalamazoo Lassies, playing for them one and a half years before joining the Kenosha Comets during the 1951 midseason. Isora retired after marrying Raymundo Kinney.[5] After baseball, she worked in electronics for 40 years and became a hospital volunteer.[9]
In 1988, she became part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the
Another tribute to the AAGPBL players came with the
In 2011, she and her AAGPBL teammates from Cuba were honored by having their names and photos presented at a ceremony in New York City. The event was presented by Leslie Heaphy, history professor at Kent State University of Ohio, during the Cuban Baseball Congress held on August 20 at Fordham University.[6]
In addition, Isora del Castillo is the only woman enshrined in the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame, having been elected in 1997.[3][11] She currently lives in Oklahoma.[5]
Career statistics
Batting
GP | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | BA | OBP |
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250 | 399 | 38 | 51 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 8 | 102 | 70 | .129 | .305 |
Fielding
GP | PO |
A | E | TC | DP | FA |
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179 | 243 | 402 | 50 | 695 | 35 | .928 |
Sources
- ISBN 0-7864-3747-2
- ^ "All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Ysora Kinney". Retrieved 2019-03-28.
- ^ a b "Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame". Retrieved 2019-03-28.
- ISBN 0-7864-3747-2
- ^ a b c "Las mujeres en el béisbol: de fanáticas a estrellas (Article in Spanish)". Archived from the original on 2011-12-27. Retrieved 2012-01-08.
- ^ a b "Cuban Player a Hit in Baseball Heyday. Article by Marino Martinez Peraza". Retrieved 2019-03-28.
- ^ a b All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book
- ^ 1949 Chicago Colleens. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
- ^ The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
- ^ IMDb.com – A League of Their Own (1992 film)
- ^ Lilly, Christiana (2012-04-04). "Ysora Kinney, 79-Year-Old Hospital Volunteer, Talks Pioneering Past In Women's Baseball". HuffPost. Retrieved 2019-03-28.