Betty Carveth

Betty Carveth
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Pitcher
Born: (1925-04-13)April 13, 1925 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Died: January 27, 2019(2019-01-27) (aged 93) Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Batted: Right Threw: Right
Teams
Rockford Peaches (1945[start]) Fort Wayne Daisies (1945[end])
Career highlights and awards
Postseason appearance (1945) Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame Honorary Induction (1998) Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display at Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)

Marjorie Elizabeth Carveth (later Dunn, April 13, 1925 – January 27, 2019) was a Canadian pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1945 season. She batted and threw right handed.^[1]

Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Betty Carveth was one of the 68 players born in Canada to join the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in its twelve years history.

In her only season Carveth posted a combined 4–11 record and a 2.28 earned run average in 21 games for the Rockford Peaches (1945) and the Fort Wayne Daisies. During the best-of-five playoff series, she lost an 11-inning pitching duel with Racine Belles' Doris Barr.^[2]

In 1998, she garnered honorary induction in the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. She also 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 in 1988 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.^[3]

Betty Carveth Dunn spent the latter part of her life in Edmonton and continued to be involved by awarding an annual $2000 scholarship which is named in her honour and shared with Millie Warwick McAuley, another Canadian who played in the AAGPBL. The scholarship is awarded in Alberta to a young female baseball player who combines excellence on the diamond, in the classroom and in the community. Betty and Millie also were Special Ambassadors during the first-ever World Cup of Women's Baseball held at Edmonton in 2004.^[4][5] In 2017, at the age of 91, Dunn was the oldest person at the time to be inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame.^[6] She died in Edmonton in 2019 at the age of 93.^[7]

Career statistics

Pitching

GP	W	L	W-L%	ERA	IP	H	RA	ER	BB	SO	HBP	WP	WHIP
21	4	11	.267	2.28	138	116	57	35	47	28	0	3	1.18

Batting

GP	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP
21	47	2	7	0	0	0	1	0	5	4	.149	.231

Fielding

GP	PO	A	E	TC	DP	FA
21	6	63	9	78	0	.885

^[1][8]

Sources

1. "All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Betty Dunn". Retrieved 2019-03-28.
2. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000. Format: Hardcover, 294pp. ISBN 0-7864-0597-X
3. Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame – 1998 Inductees Archived March 1, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
4. Daily Herald Tribune – Betty Carveth (Dunn) still throwing sliders a half-century on. Article by Fred Rinne. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
5. Edmonton International Baseball Foundation – 2000 IBAF World Junior AAA Baseball Championship Archived June 10, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
6. Jones, Terry (2017-02-17). "Former Peach a keen induction into Alberta Sports Hall of Fame". Edmonton Sun. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
7. "Remembering the life of Marjorie DUNN".
8. All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book