Helen Nicol-Fox | |
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All-American Girls Professional Baseball League | |
Pitcher | |
Born: Ardley, Alberta, Canada | May 9, 1920|
Died: July 25, 2021 Mesa, Arizona, U.S. | (aged 101)|
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
debut | |
1943,, for the Kenosha Comets | |
Last appearance | |
1952,, for the Rockford Peaches | |
Career statistics | |
Win–loss record | 163–118 |
Strikeouts | 1,076 |
Earned run average | 1.89 |
Games pitched | 313 |
Innings of work | 2,382 |
Teams | |
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Career highlights and awards | |
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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]