Betty Carveth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
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Place of Birth: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
About Betty Carveth
- Marjorie Elizabeth Carveth (later Dunn, April 13, 1925 – January 27, 2019) was a Canadian pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1945 season.
- She batted and threw right handed.Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Betty Carveth was one of the 57 players born in Canada to join the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in its twelve years history. In her only season Carveth posted a combined 4-11 record and a 2.28 earned run average in 21 games for the Rockford Peaches (1945) and the Fort Wayne Daisies.
- During the best-of-five playoff series, she lost an 11-inning pitching duel with Racine Belles' Doris Barr.In 1998, she garnered honorary induction in the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.
- She also 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.Betty Carveth Dunn spent the latter part of her life in Edmonton and continued to be involved by awarding an annual $2000 scholarship which is named in her honour and shared with Millie Warwick McAuley, another Canadian who played in the AAGPBL.
- The scholarship is awarded in Alberta to a young female baseball player who combines excellence on the diamond, in the classroom and in the community.
- Betty and Millie also were Special Ambassadors during the first-ever World Cup of Women's Baseball held at Edmonton in 2004.
- In 2017, at the age of 91, Dunn was the oldest person at the time to be inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame.
- She died in Edmonton in 2019 at the age of 93.
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