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Born Myrle Vernon King in Walla Walla, Washington, he played softball for much of his early life, and turned his attention to the sport full-time following an enlistment in the U.S. Marine Corps. He first assembled his four-man touring team , known as "The King and His Court", in 1946 and took on all comers, first in the Pacific Northwest and ...
Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash following the 1972 season. This is a list of baseball players who died during their careers. While some of these deaths occurred during a game, the majority were the result of accidents off the field, illnesses, acts of violence, or suicide.
Mo'ne Ikea Davis (born June 24, 2001) [3] is an American former Little League Baseball pitcher and former Hampton University softball player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.She was one of two girls who played in the 2014 Little League World Series and was the first girl to earn a win and to throw a shutout in Little League World Series history.
Nina Teresa Korgan was born in Pottawatamie, Iowa to Fred J. Korgan, a farmer and thresher, and Nina Olga (Rupenkamp) Korgan. [2] In an era when extramural women’s sports were not available in high schools, Korgan was an all-around athlete from a young age, playing volleyball, basketball, baseball, soccer, captain ball, and tennis at Abraham Lincoln High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Her younger brothers are Craig and Chris. She attended Cypress Springs High School in Cypress, Texas from 1997 to 2001, where she set several records on the school's softball team. In 2001, she struck out 33 batters in a 14-inning 1–0 shutout over Cy-Fair High School. The performance ranked 16th on the list of strikeouts in a single game.
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Joan Joyce (August 18, 1940 – March 26, 2022) [1] was the softball coach at Florida Atlantic, for 28 years until her death in 2022.She previously was a softball player for the Raybestos Brakettes and the Orange Lionettes. [2]
Monica Cecilia Abbott (born July 28, 1985) is a retired American professional softball player. Abbott was an All-American pitcher for the Tennessee Lady Volunteers in college before starting a professional career in the NPF and in the Japan Softball League.