Geraldine Bureker
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Outfield
Born: (1924-12-18)December 18, 1924
Portland, Oregon
Died: January 29, 2009(2009-01-29) (aged 84)
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
Teams
Career highlights and awards
  • Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display
    at Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)

Geraldine Lee Bureker [Stopper] (December 18, 1924 – January 29, 2009) was an outfielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 2", 125 lb., she batted and threw right handed.[1][2]

Born in Portland, Oregon, the diminutive Geraldine Bureker played for the Tonseth Flowers team that clinched the Oregon State Championship in 1945.[3] She later saw action in the Chicago softball circuits before joining the AAGPBL with the Racine Belles in the 1948 season.[4]

Bureker batted a .140 average in 28 games for the Belles and posted a perfect 1.000 percentage in nine fielding chances.

In November 1988, Bureker, along with her former teammates and opponents, received their long overdue recognition, when the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum dedicated a permanent display to the All American Girls Professional Baseball League in Cooperstown, New York.

Career statistics

Batting

GP AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB TB BB SO BA OBP SLG
28 53 5 8 0 0 0 2 2 8 9 9 .140 .279 .140

Fielding

GP PO A E TC DP FA
22 8 1 0 9 1 1.000

[1][3]

Sources

  1. ^ a b "All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Geraldine Stopper". Retrieved 2019-03-27.
  2. ^ The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A Biographical Dictionary – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2005. Format: Softcover, 295 pp. ISBN 978-0-7864-2263-0, OCLC 60387152
  3. ^ a b The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A Biographical Dictionary – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2005. Format: Softcover ISBN 978-0-7864-2263-0 OCLC 60387152
  4. ^ 1948 Racine Belles. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
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