Betty Carveth

Marjorie Elizabeth Carveth (later Dunn, April 13, 1925 – January 27, 2019) was a Canadian pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1945 season. She batted and threw right handed.[1]

Betty Carveth
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Pitcher
Born: (1925-04-13)April 13, 1925
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Died: January 27, 2019(2019-01-27) (aged 93)
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Batted: Right Threw: Right
Teams
Career highlights and awards
  • Postseason appearance (1945)
  • Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame Honorary Induction (1998)
  • Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display
    at Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)

Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Betty Carveth was one of the 57 players born in Canada to join the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in its twelve years history.

In her only season Carveth posted a combined 4-11 record and a 2.28 earned run average in 21 games for the Rockford Peaches (1945) and the Fort Wayne Daisies. During the best-of-five playoff series, she lost an 11-inning pitching duel with Racine Belles' Doris Barr.[2]

In 1998, she garnered honorary induction in the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. She also 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 in 1988 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.[3]

Betty Carveth Dunn spent the latter part of her life in Edmonton and continued to be involved by awarding an annual $2000 scholarship which is named in her honour and shared with Millie Warwick McAuley, another Canadian who played in the AAGPBL. The scholarship is awarded in Alberta to a young female baseball player who combines excellence on the diamond, in the classroom and in the community. Betty and Millie also were Special Ambassadors during the first-ever World Cup of Women's Baseball held at Edmonton in 2004.[4][5] In 2017, at the age of 91, Dunn was the oldest person at the time to be inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame.[6] She died in Edmonton in 2019 at the age of 93.[7]

Career statistics

Pitching

GPWLW-L%ERAIPHRAERBBSOHBPWPWHIP
21411.2672.2813811657354728031.18

Batting

GPABRH2B3BHRRBISBBBSOBAOBP
2147270001054.149.231

Fielding

GPPOAETCDPFA
216639780.885

[1][8]

Sources
  1. "All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Betty Dunn". Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  2. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W.C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000. Format: Hardcover, 294pp. ISBN 0-7864-0597-X
  3. Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame – 1998 Inductees Archived March 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  4. Daily Herald Tribune – Betty Carveth (Dunn) still throwing sliders a half-century on. Article by Fred Rinne. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  5. Edmonton International Baseball Foundation – 2000 IBAF World Junior AAA Baseball Championship Archived June 10, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  6. Jones, Terry (2017-02-17). "Former Peach a keen induction into Alberta Sports Hall of Fame". Edmonton Sun. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  7. http://edmontonjournal.remembering.ca/obituary/marjorie-dunn-1072516866
  8. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book
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