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American baseball player Baseball player
Louella Daetweiler
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Catcher
Born: (1918-04-30)April 30, 1918
Lynwood, California
Died: August 22, 2004(2004-08-22) (aged 86)
Long Beach, California
Batted: RightThrew: Right
Teams
Career highlights and awards
  • Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display
    at Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)

Louella M. Daetweiler (April 30, 1918 – August 22, 2004) was a catcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 3", 160 lb., she batted and threw right handed.

Biography

Born in Lynwood, California, Daetweiler graduated from Compton College, where she was a member of the basketball and field hockey teams. She also played organized softball in several years before joining the league for the 1944 season.

Daetweiler played 33 games for the Rockford Peaches, serving as a backup to Peaches incumbent catcher Dorothy Green and coming off the bench as pinch hitter. ״Daets״, as her teammates called her, also worked as a chaperone for the team during her only season in the league.

After baseball, she coached and officiated for 39 years at Compton College.

Recognition

In 1988, Louella received further recognition when she became part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

Death

Daetweiler was a longtime resident of Long Beach, California, where she died at the age of 86.

Career statistics

Batting

GP AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB TB BB SO BA OBP SLG
33 76 4 6 0 0 0 8 4 6 6 5 .079 .146 .079

Fielding

GP PO A E TC DP FA
19 38 7 12 57 0 .789

References

  1. ^ "All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Louella Daetweiler". Retrieved 2019-03-29.
  2. The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A Biographical Dictionary – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2005. Format: Softcover, 295 pp. Language: English. ISBN 978-0-7864-2263-0. OCLC 60387152
  3. ^ The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
  4. 1944 Rockford Peaches. Retrieved 2019-03-29.

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