Rose Folder, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
Date of Birth: 12-May-1926
Place of Birth: Springfield, Illinois, United States
Date of Death: 03-Jul-2014
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Rose Folder
- Rose Folder [Powell] (May 12, 1926 – July 3, 2014) was an outfield/infield utility and pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1944 season.
- Listed at 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m), 140 lb, she batted and threw right-handed.Rose Folder was a very dependable player during her only year in the league.
- ?Rosie?, as she was nicknamed, was able to play at shortstop, third base, right field, and also volunteered to pitch when her team suffered a shortage of hurlers.
- In addition, she displayed some power and consistently hit line drives.Born in Springfield, Illinois, Folder attended the now extinct Feitshans High School, where a Lutheran pastor taught her everything she had to know about baseball.
- He was really interested in putting a team together, and showed her how to pitch.
- Then she played for a fastpitch softball team.In 1943, Folder took a part-time job in a spark plugs factory in Chicago during the day, and played semi-professional softball for the Tungsten Sparks team at night.
- An AAGPBL scout spotted Folder while playing for the Sparks and invited her for a tryout.
- At the end of her senior year in high school, she took her exams early to attend the 1944 spring training camp at Peru, Illinois.Folder was allocated to the Kenosha Comets, a team managed by former big leaguer Marty McManus.
- We learned to play baseball from former major leaguers and were turned from tomboys to ladies by the charm school classes, she explained in interview.In 1944 Folder posted a pitching record of 2–7 with a 5.67 earned run average in 14 games, but she was even better as a hitter.
- Her .261 batting average was the seventh-best in the league, a pretty good performance considering it was a dominant pitching league and no batters surpassed .300 on the year.Kenosha won the first half of the season and faced the second-half winning Milwaukee Chicks in the 1944 Scholarship Series.
- The series went to the limit of seven games and Milwaukee clinched the championship, four to three.
- During the postseason, Folder tried to make a shoestring catch at left field and sprained an ankle, which limited her playing time to one game.
- She went hitless in one at-bat.Folder returned home, married Edward Powell in 1946, and raised four girls and two boys.
- The couple had ten grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
- Besides this, she attended Illinois State Normal University in Normal, and also ran a day care business in Carnation, Washington for 25 years.
- The children of Carnation that she cared for affectionately referred to her as "Grandma Rose". She 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.
- Though she did not attend the ceremony, she traveled to Cooperstown to see her name in the hall.
- That was the biggest thrill of my life, she exclaimed with excitement.She died on July 3, 2014.
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