Career
Listed at 5 ft 1 in (155 m), 130 pounds, she batted right-handed and threw left-handed. Born in Muskegon, Michigan, Doris was one of twelve children into the family of Sidney and Daisy (née Johnson) Cook. She was signed a contract and relocated to the Springfield Sallies rookie team, a traveling developmental squad of the AAGPBL, which entertained crowds across the country, playing exhibition games before Major League Baseball contests.
She played in Yankee Stadium and Griffith Stadium.
We traded autographed balls with Tommy Henrich of the Yankees, she recalled in an interview. From 1949 to 1950, she posted a 6–11 record in 17 pitching appearances and batted a.137 average (10-for-73).
In 1951 Cook was promoted to the Kalamazoo Lassies, playing for them two and a half years before joining the South Bend Blue Sox during the 1953 midseason. Cook went 0–1 with a 5.74 earned run average in 22 games pitched and played 74 games at left field, while collecting a.128 batting average.
I was more of a defensive player than an offensive one, she explained.
Following her baseball career, Cook worked in banking for more of two decades before retiring in 1994. Since 1988 she is 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. She currently lives in her hometown of Muskegon.
