Rita Meyer (baseball), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 12-Feb-1927
Place of Birth: Florissant, Missouri, United States
Date of Death: 16-Jun-1992
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Rita Meyer (baseball)
- Rita Ann Meyer [Moellering] (February 12, 1927 – June 16, 1992) was a shortstop and pitcher who played from 1946 through 1949 for the Peoria Redwings of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
- Listed at 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m), 145 lb., Meyer batted and threw right-handed.
- She was born in Florissant, Missouri.Rita Meyer was the oldest of six children.
- A good fielding shortstop and average hitter during her four seasons in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, she was one of 13 players who made the AAGPBL clubs hailed from Missouri.
- Meyer was nicknamed Slats after St.
- Louis Cardinals shortstop Marty Marion, just given the nickname of Marion because someone said she reminded them the play of him – quite a common way to get a nickname in sports.In 1946 Meyer tried out for the league at spring training in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and was allocated to the Redwings expansion team based in Peoria, Illinois.
- She appeared regularly at shortstop and also pitched in 13 games in 1947.
- Meyer hurled a no-hitter in that season, but lost the game, 1–0.
- Her most productive season came in 1948, when she posted career-highs in batting average (.232), doubles (12), stolen bases (45) and runs batted in (68).
- The Redwings advanced to the first round of the playoffs for the first – and only – time in team history, but were swept by the Racine Belles in three straight games.Rita Meyer married Robert Moellering in 1949.
- She resided after that in St.
- Louis, Missouri, where she became an active participant in public school sports for the rest of her life.
- On November 5, 1988, she was honored with the rest of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the opening of a permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.
- Besides this, the St.
- Louis Sports Commission presents the Rita "Slats" Meyer Moellering Memorial Award, named after her, to recognize the accomplishments of women in individual sports.
- Her many hobbies included collecting emblems, poems and Dick Tracy comic strips.
- She died in St.
- Louis at the age of 65.Batting statistics Pitching statistics
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