Earlene Risinger

Earlene Risinger
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Pitcher
Born: (1927-03-20)March 20, 1927
Hess, Oklahoma
Died: July 29, 2008(2008-07-29) (aged 81)
Hess, Oklahoma
Batted: right
Threw: right
Teams
Career highlights and awards
  • All-Star Team (1953)
  • Championship team (1953)
  • Six playoff appearances (1949–1954)
  • Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display
    Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)

Helen Earlene Risinger (March 20, 1927 – July 29, 2008) was a pitcher who played from 1948 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 6' 2", 137 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.[1]

One of the tallest players in the league's history, Earlene Risinger was an All-Star pitcher who helped the Grand Rapids Chicks win a championship title in 1953. Unlike many of the AAGPBL girls she played with, Risinger never played organized softball when she was growing up in Oklahoma and entered the league after full overhand pitching was adopted in 1948.[2]

  1. ^ "All-American Girls Professional Baseball League website - Earlene Risinger autobiography".
  2. ^ "All-American Girls Professional Baseball League History". Archived from the original on 2009-08-28.