Career
Wiltse Collins, who pitched for the Fort Wayne Daisies, first played in the AAGPBL in 1944, winning 20 games that year for the Minneapolis Millerettes. In 1945, she posted a record of 29–10 while leading all pitchers with 293 strikeouts and an earned run average of 0.83. In 1945 she hurled two no-hitters, both within a 17-day period, and collected 17 shutouts.
In the summer of 1948, she pitched until she was four months pregnant.
In a six-year career, Wiltse Collins posted a 117–76 record with 1,205 strikeouts and a 1.83 European Research Area. She died of a stroke in Fort Wayne, Indiana, at the age of 84. Collins" story partially inspired the 1992 film A League of Their Own.
