Helen Nicol

Helen Nicol-Fox
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Pitcher
Born: (1920-05-09)May 9, 1920
Ardley, Alberta, Canada
Died: July 25, 2021(2021-07-25) (aged 101)
Mesa, Arizona, U.S.
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
debut
1943,, for the Kenosha Comets
Last appearance
1952,, for the Rockford Peaches
Career statistics
Win–loss record163–118
Strikeouts  1,076
Earned run average   1.89
Games pitched    313
Innings of work  2,382
Teams
Career highlights and awards

Helen Nicol (later Fox; May 9, 1920 – July 25, 2021) was a Canadian-American baseball pitcher who played from 1943 through 1952 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL).

Listed at 5 feet 3 inches (1.60 m), 120 pounds (54 kg), Nicol batted and threw right-handed. She was sometimes credited as Helen Fox or Nickie Fox.

The 1992 film A League of Their Own, directed by filmmaker Penny Marshall, revitalized interest in women's baseball and helped memorialize a neglected chapter of sports history: the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which gave over 600 women athletes the opportunity to play professional baseball and to play it at a level never before attained. Nicol was one of them.

Nicol turned 100 in May 2020[1] and died in Mesa, Arizona, in July 2021, at the age of 101.[2]

  1. ^ "Rockford Peaches star pitcher celebrates 101st birthday". Archived from the original on 2023-02-08. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
  2. ^ "Helen M. (Nicol) Fox obituary". Archived from the original on 2021-08-04. Retrieved 2021-08-04.