Nalda Bird

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Nalda Bird
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Pitcher
Born: (1927-02-11)February 11, 1927
Los Angeles, California
Died: September 15, 2004(2004-09-15) (aged 77)
Batted: Right
Threw: Left
Teams
Career highlights and awards
  • Hurled complete game shutouts in both games of a doubleheader
  • Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display at Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (since 1988)

Nalda Marie Bird [Phillips] (February 11, 1927 – September 15, 2004) was a

left-handed. She was nicknamed "Birdie". Sometimes she is credited as Nelda Bird.[1][2][3]

Early life

A native of

Chicago. Before that, a player from Los Angeles Angels PCL team worked with her on playing baseball. Finally, she was signed to a contract and was allocated to the South Bend Blue Sox.[4][5]

Professional career

Bird was a hard-throwing and durable left-hander, but had problems with her control in her only season in the league. She joined a South Bend pitching staff headed by Charlotte Armstrong, and contributed with 13 victories, even though she allowed the most earned runs (67), tied the league season-record for the more balks (six), and posted a 0.80 strikeout-to-walk ratio (128-to-160).[5]

After the season ended, soon to be nineteen, Nalda left the game, got married with Jesse Otis Phillips, and delivered her only son, Michael.[5] In 1947 she pitched in the National Women's Softball League of Chicago, because the AAGPBL no longer used underhand pitchers.[6] She hurled a no-hitter in her only season in Chicago, and retired to take care of her husband and little boy. She was widowed in 1991.[3]

Nalda Bird-Phillips died in Kennesaw, Georgia, at the age of 77.[3]

Pitching statistics

GP W L W-L% ERA IP H R ER BB SO WHIP
31 13 17 .433 2.70 223 135 117 67 160 128 1.322

[5]

Fact

The

1992 film A League of Their Own, directed by Penny Marshall, which was a fictionalized account dedicated to the women who played in the league during the course of World War II.[7][8] In their annual reunions since 1998, it is usual to hear the original AAGPBL players singing We're the members of the All-American League. We come from cities near and far. We've got Canadians, Irish ones, and Swedes. We're all for one, we're one for all. We're all Americans.[9]

Sources

  1. ^ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Nalda Phillips Archived 2019-03-27 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  2. ISBN 0-7864-3747-2
  3. ^ a b c "Nalda Marie Bird Phillips (1927–2004) - Find A Grave Memorial". Archived from the original on 2019-03-27. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
  4. ^ 1945 South Bend Blue Sox Archived 2019-03-27 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  5. ^ a b c d The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
  6. ^ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Rules of Play Archived 2019-02-25 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  7. ^ "All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Victory Song". Archived from the original on 2012-01-18. Retrieved 2010-03-21.
  8. ^ "IMDb.com – A League of Their Own (1992 film)". Archived from the original on 2019-02-22. Retrieved 2018-06-29.
  9. YouTube
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