Gloria Marks

Gloria Marks (born 1923) is a former pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1943 season. Listed at 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m), 130 lb, she batted and threw right-handed.[1]

Gloria Marks
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Pitcher
Born: 1923 San Diego, California
Bats: Right Throws: Right
Teams
Racine Belles (1943)
Career highlights and awards
Championship Team (1943) Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display at Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)

Gloria Marks was one of the sixty original players recruited by the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League for its inaugural season.

Born in San Diego, California, she pitched for several championship teams in her native San Diego before joining the league.[2]

Marks was assigned to the Racine Belles, a team managed by former big leaguer Johnny Gottselig, as part of a pitching staff headed by Mary Nesbitt and Joanne Winter.[3][4]

In her only season in the league, Marks helped win Racine the regular season title and the championship after going 11–9 for a .550 winning percentage. She also helped herself with the bat, connecting seven of her 18 hits for extra bases, to collect a very solid .471 slugging average.[3]

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.

Career statistics

Pitching

GP	W	L	W-L%	ERA	IP	H	RA	ER	BB	SO	HB	WP	WHIP
29	11	9	.550	4.05	166	145	125	75	117	29	4	22	1.58

Batting

GP	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	TB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG
33	68	9	18	4	2	1	7	2	32	7	11	.265	.333	.471

Fielding

GP	PO	A	E	TC	FA
29	18	63	15	96	.944

[3][5]

Sources

1. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000. Format: Paperback, 294pp. Language: English. ISBN 0-7864-3747-2
2. The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A Biographical Dictionary – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2005. Format: Paperback, 295 pp. Language: English. ISBN 0-7864-3747-2
3. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book
4. 1943 Racine Belles Archived January 8, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
5. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League official website – Gloria Marks entry

Further reading

• "Coast, Legion Girls Open Series Tonight". Arizona Independent Republic. June 1, 1940. p. 3 (Section Two).
• "Championship Belles Retain Veterans in All Positions; Get Two New Hurlers". The Racine Journal-Times. May 24, 1944. p. 14.