Shirley Crites

All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAll-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
PlacesUnited States of America
wasAthlete Baseball player
Work fieldSports
Gender
Female
Birth21 August 1934, Cape Girardeau
Death28 December 1990Phoenix (aged 56 years)
The details

Biography

Shirley L. Crites (August 21, 1934 – December 28, 1990) was an infielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1953 season. Crites batted and threw right-handed. She was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
״Squirrely״, as her teammates nicknamed her, played briefly for the 1953 pennant-winning Fort Wayne Daisies. She hit a .129 average in 47 games, appearing mainly at third base as a backup to incumbent Catherine Horstman, which gave manager Bill Allington the chance to use Hortsman more as a pitcher.
Fort Wayne clinched the title with a 66–39 record, 4½ games ahead of the Grand Rapids Chicks, but lost to the Kalamazoo Lassies in the first round series. Crites went 0-for-3 in a playoff game.
Crites is part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled in 1988 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
She died in 1990 in Phoenix, Arizona, at the age of 56.

Career statistics

Batting

GPABRH2B3BHRRBISBTBBBSOBAOBPSLG
471321517310117221517.129.218.145

Fielding

GPPOAETCDPFA
204192111445.924

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