Muriel Bevis

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Muriel Bevis
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Outfielder/Pitcher
Born: (1928-10-07)October 7, 1928
Corona, Queens, New York, US
Died: October 29, 2002(2002-10-29) (aged 74)
Mount Juliet, Tennessee, US
Batted: Left
Threw: Left
Teams
Career highlights and awards
  • Postseason appearance (1950)
  • Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display at Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)

Muriel Bevis [″Breezy″] (October 7, 1928 – October 29, 2002) was an American

left-handed. She was born in Corona, Queens, New York City.[1]

By 1943 a new All-American Girls Softball League was formed. Started largely to provide entertainment for baseball fans whose beloved heroes had gone off to World War II, the league would eventually shift gears and become the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which was dissolved at the end of the 1954 season.

Muriel Bevis was one of 25 players in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League clubs who hailed from New York City and State, including Gloria Cordes, Mildred Deegan, Nancy Mudge, Betty Trezza and Margaret Wigiser.

Bevis grew up in Westhampton Beach and often found herself playing softball at Cedarhurst Stadium, where she was approached by a talent scout who offered her a contract to play in the AAGPBL.[2]

Bevis entered the league in 1950 with the

runs batted in (43) and stolen bases (38), helping Kenosha reach the playoffs, though the team lost in the first round of post-season action.[3]

Bevis was a longtime resident of Kerrville, Texas,[4][5] and later moved to Mount Juliet, Tennessee, where she died at the age of 74.[6]

Batting statistics

GP AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO BA OBP
SLG
56 165 46 35 4 1 5 43 38 13 13 .212 .270 .340

Pitching statistics

GP W L W-L% ERA IP H R ER BB SO WHIP
7 1 2 .333 6.83 29 30 27 22 25 5 1.896

[7]

Fact

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.

Sources

  1. ^ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Muriel Bevis. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  2. ISBN 0-7864-0597-X
  3. ^ 1950 Kenosha Comets. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  4. ^ The San Angelo Standard - Times Online
  5. ^ Open-Jurist.com
  6. ISBN 0-9707095-8-7
  7. ^ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book
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