Leola Brody
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
First base / Outfield / Pitcher
Born: (1922-05-30)May 30, 1922
Chicago, Illinois
Died: December 14, 1997(1997-12-14) (aged 75)
Long Grove, Illinois
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
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Career highlights and awards
  • Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display at Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (since 1988)

Leola Mae Brody [Hay] (May 30, 1922 – December 14, 1997) was an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player. Brody batted and threw right handed. She was nicknamed Bubbles.[1][2]

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Brody joined the league in its inaugural season of 1943. Brody was assigned to the Racine Belles, even though she did not appear in a game for the team. After that, she played fastpitch softball for the Bloomer Girls club based in Chicago.[1]

Following her playing retirement, Brody taught bowling and bowled in men's leagues. Throughout the 1970s, she also worked as a physical therapist at a hospital in Wetumpka, Alabama.[1]

The AAGPBL folded in 1954, but there is a permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York since November 5, 1988, that honors the entire league rather than any individual figure.[3]

Bubbles Brody died in 1997 in Long Grove, Illinois, at the age of 75.[1]

Sources

  1. ^ a b c d All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Leola Hay. Retrieved 2019-03-27.
  2. ^ Madden, W. C. (2005) The Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: A Biographical Dictionary (2005). ISBN 9780786422630
  3. ^ "League of Women Ballplayers | Baseball Hall of Fame". baseballhall.org. Retrieved 2024-01-27.
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