Thelma Childress
| Thelma Childress | |
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| All-American Girls Professional Baseball League | |
| Born: October 9, 1926 Richmond, Virginia, U.S. | |
| Died: October 18, 2019 (aged 93) Virginia, U.S. | |
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Thelma Childress (later Pedin and then Kinney, October 9, 1926 – October 18, 2019) was an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player. She was born in Richmond, Virginia.[1] Childress appeared as a member of the Grand Rapids Chicks[2] club during its 1946 season.
The AAGPBL folded in 1954, but there is a permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York since November 5, 1988, that honors the entire league rather than any individual figure.[3]
Kinney survived her son, J.S. Scot Pedin, who died in March 2019 at the age of 63.[4] She died in October 2019, shortly before her 94th birthday.[5]
Sources
[edit]- ^ Thelma Pedin. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Retrieved 2019-04-12.
- ^ "Grand Rapids Chicks Team photograph, 1946". National Baseball Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
- ^ Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Official Website
- ^ J.S. Scot Pedin obituary, lastingmemories.com; accessed July 3, 2020.
- ^ Thelma Kinney obituary