Beatrice Arbour, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Beatrice Arbour

baseball player (1920-)

Date of Birth: 02-Dec-1920

Place of Birth: Somerset, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 10-Jun-2019

Profession: baseball player, softball player

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Beatrice Arbour

  • Beatrice Parrott (nĂ©e Arbour; December 2, 1920 – June 10, 2019) was an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player.
  • Listed at 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m), 128 lb (58 kg), she batted and threw right handed.Born in GaspĂ©, Quebec, Arbour was raised in Somerset, Massachusetts, where she attended Somerset High School before there were sports teams for girls.
  • Nevertheless, Arbour acquired some experience while playing with the American Legion Baseball boys' team in her hometown.
  • In 1937, a group of girls, including Arbour, went before the Student Council and requested a girls' basketball league be formed.
  • As a result, the first girls league was started with 50 ladies participating on five intramural teams.
  • Arbour was recognized as the Most Athletic female of the Class of 1938.In addition to her athletic accomplishments at school, Arbour played for the St.
  • Patrick's Parish softball team, which competed against teams from as far away as New York.In 1947, she joined the AAGPBL as a shortstop for the Racine Belles, which was one of the teams depicted in the 1992 film A League of Their Own.
  • While playing for Racine, Arbour had a number of different jobs during the off-season to pay her bills, including an internship in an apple orchard.After baseball, Arbour married Donald M.
  • Parrott, who died in 2010.
  • They had four children together; three boys and a girl.
  • Arbour drove a school bus for 19 years.Arbour is part of the AAGPBL permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which opened in 1988.
  • The display is dedicated to the entire league rather than any individual figure.In 2011, Arbour was inducted into the Somerset High School Athletic Hall of Fame.
  • A year later, Arbour’s granddaughter, Jenny Parrott, honored her by publishing a book about her life entitled Famed Girl Athlete Now a Milkman: the Biography of Beatrice Arbour Parrott.Arbour moved later to Fall River, Massachusetts, where she died in 2019 at the age of 98.

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