Noella Leduc, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
Date of Birth: 23-Dec-1933
Place of Birth: Graniteville Historic District, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 22-Aug-2014
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Noella Leduc
- Noella Leduc (nÊe Alverson; December 23, 1933 â August 22, 2014) was an American pitcher and outfielder who played from 1951 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
- Listed at 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m), 130 lb, Leduc batted and threw right-handed.
- She was born in Graniteville, Westford, Massachusetts.Noella Leduc pitched and served as a backup outfielder during the last four years of the league.
- A member of a champion team, she also was the winning pitcher in the last ever All-Star Game in 1954. Leduc grew up playing sandlot ball with her neighborhood kids at age five, most of them boys.
- When she attended high school, she had to play softball, but after school she accustomed to play baseball with the boys again.
- In 1951, while playing in a boys' team, Leduc was spotted by AAGPBL catcher Rita Briggs.
- She tried out for Briggs, who recommended her to attend the league's spring training in Peoria, Illinois.
- ?Pinky?, the nickname Briggs gave her, was assigned to the Peoria Redwings, but she had few chances to play during the season.In 1952 Leduc joined the Battle Creek Belles.
- She finished with a 3â4 mark and a 3.11 earned run average in 19 pitching appearances.
- In the mid of the year, she hurled and won a 14-inning complete game while scoring the winning run after hitting a double.
- She stayed with the franchise when it moved in 1953 and was renamed the Muskegon Belles.
- She slipped to a 3â9 record for a team that went 38â67 and finished in last place, 28 games out of contention.In her final season, Leduc was selected by the Fort Wayne Daisies.
- This time, her team gave her plenty of run support, as she went 9â10, tying for fourth in games pitched (24).
- In addition, the Daisies defeated the All-Star Team that season and she was the winning pitcher.
- At the end, Fort Wayne repeated the regular season title and won the Grand Rapids Chicks in the first round, but lost to the Kalamazoo Lassies in the best-of-five final round, three games to two.
- In six postseason games, Leduc batted .238 (5-for-21) and drove in four runs, but she did not pitch in any game.She married George Alverson in 1964.
- The couple had a daughter, Betsy, and lived in Leonardo, New Jersey.Pinky 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.
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