Background
Born in Springfield, Ohio, Alice Hohlmayer was the daughter of Carl Hohlmayer, a milkman and laundromat owner, and Marguerite (née Waggaman) Hohlmayer, a housewife.
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Alice Hohlmayer
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Hohlmayer graduated from Springfield High School in 1942.
Career
Listed at 5 ft 6 in (168 m), 160 pounds, she batted and threw left-handed. Nicknamed ״Lefty״ from school days, she also played basketball, field hockey, tennis and volleyball. The next year she entered Ohio State University, where she had a chance to show her athletic talent.
Then, she was discovered by an AAGPBL sport in 1945 while playing during a tournament in Cleveland, and later was contacted by the league"s president Max Carey.
Following a tryout at Pascagoula, Mississippi, Hohlmayer entered the league in 1946 with the Kenosha Comets, playing for them three years before joining the Muskegon Lassies (1949), Kalamazoo Lassies (1950) and Peoria Redwings (1950–1951). She opened at first base, then gradually started to pitch until becoming a full-time pitcher, showing good batting skills and a hard throwing arm.
The versatile Hohlmayer hurled 42 consecutive scoreless innings in 1950, and also made 21 putouts at first base in a regular game. Her most productive season came in 1951, when she posted a 15–11 record with a 2.02 earned run average and 209 innings of work in 29 pitching appearances.
Besides this, she gained notoriety for having a hit against legendary pitcher Satchel Paige during an All-Star exhibition game.
In a six-year career, Hohlmayer was a.203 hitter and posted a pitching record of 33–32 with a 2.58 European Research Area. In seven postseason games, she hit.136 (3-for-22) and had a 1.29 European Research Area in seven innings without a decision. Hohlmayer continued studying while playing baseball, graduating in 1949 from Ohio State with bachelor"s degrees in physical education and health. After the 1951 season she returned home to help save the family laundromat business.
After retiring in 1979, she played on a men"s 55-plus softball team which advanced to the World Slow Pitch Tournament.
She also managed a softball team for five years before moving to San Diego, California. In 1988, Alice Hohlmayer McNaughton became part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
Alice Hohlmayer was nominated and inducted into the Women"s Hall of Fame in 2005 for the title of Spirit Of The Women"s Hall Of Fame. The annual Women"s Hall of Fame induction is co-hosted by Women"s Museum of California (Located in San Diego), Commission on the Status of Women, University of California San Diego Women"s Center, and San Diego State Women"s Studies.
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