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Rommelaere grew up on a farm near LaFleche, and moved to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan at seventeen.
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Martha Rommelaere
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Listed at 5"4", 120 pounds, she batted and threw right handed. Born in Deloraine, Manitoba, Martha Rommelaere was one of the 57 players born in Canada to join the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in its twelve years history. But unfortunately, her career in the circuit was cut short due to a severe back injury.
She began to play sandlot ball with the boys of her neighborhood when she was a little girl, and became a track and field star in high school who could outrun any girl in Saskatchewan.
I could run like a deer, she explained in an interview. At age 22, Rommelaere joined the Moose Jaw Royals softball team
She was missed by scouts of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during her first years in softball. Rommelaere entered the league in 1950, playing for the Chicago Colleens and Springfield Sallies traveling teams before being promoted to the Kenosha Comets halfway through the season.
Basically an infielder in Canada, she was converted to the outfield because of her flashy speed.
She hurt her back while playing and had problem with it during her AAGPBL career. lieutenant was the sitting on the bus that killed me, she said. The couple raised three children, and she worked as a dressmaker until her retirement in 1983.
In 1998, she gained honorary induction into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.
She is part of the AAGPBL permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York, opened in 1988, which is dedicated to the entire league rather than any individual personality. Martha Rommelaere Manning was a longtime resident of Regina, Saskatchewan, where she died, aged 88.
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