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Rose Gacioch was born on 31 August, 1915 in Wheeling, West Virginia, is a Rose M. Gacioch was right fielder. Discover Rose Gacioch's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 89 years old?

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Age 89 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 31 August 1915
Birthday 31 August
Birthplace Wheeling, West Virginia
Date of death 9 September, 2004
Died Place Clinton Township, Michigan
Nationality West

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1915

Rose M. Gacioch (August 31, 1915 – September 9, 2004) was a right fielder and pitcher who played from 1944 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

Listed at 5ft 6in, 160 lb, Gacioch batted and threw right-handed.

She had one of the most successful careers in AAGPBL history and possibly the most well-rounded of any female player.

She was of Polish descent.

1934

One afternoon in 1934, the president of the corrugating company came to a Little Cardinals game.

He meet Maud Nelson, the manager of the All-Star Ranger Girls, and asked her if she could swing through Wheeling on her next tour, and give Gacioch a tryout.

Gacioch did good, as Nelson signed her for the Rangers.

She alternated between the outfield and pitching.

By then, women athletes hurried right into these teams.

The trousers she used gave their name to pioneer women's baseball players, who were called Bloomer Girls.

But 1934 was the last year that the Bloomer Girls teams would play.

Local companies that had sponsored women's baseball were switching over the less expensive game of softball, an activity that relied mainly on a strong player, as is the pitcher.

So Gacioch, like most other women players, switched to softball, barnstorming around the Midwest on weekends for as much as $50 for two days' play.

She was working in a factory during World War II when she read about the new women's baseball league, the All-American Girls Baseball League, being formed.

At 29, she was a bit old to play baseball.

Nevertheless, a co-worker said her that his daughter was a chaperone for the South Bend Blue Sox, and he would ask her to come and look Gacioch up.

Her chance came with a tryout at Pulaski Field in South Wheeling, just two blocks from her home.

1940

During the early 1940s the AAGPBL recruited young women to play baseball to keep the spirit of the game alive while the men fought overseas.

1943

The league, created in 1943 by the Chicago Cubs' owner Philip K. Wrigley, gave over 600 women athletes the opportunity to play professional baseball and to play it at a level never before attained.

1944

For Gacioch, the result was a return to baseball as a member of the 1944 Blue Sox.

The team was managed by Bert Niehoff, the same man that had sent pitcher Jackie Mitchell to face Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig a decade earlier in an exhibition game.

As it is reported, she struck out Ruth And Gehrig in succession.

1945

At the end of the 1945 season, Gacioch was one of the ten players on the Blue Sox that Niehoff asked to have protected from being traded at a league meeting in Chicago.

But the president of the South Bend club decided that Gacioch's poor English made her a liability for the team, not the ladylike image he was seeking for his organization.

And so he traded her to the Rockford Peaches for the 1945 season.

After the transaction, Gacioch blossomed as one of the most consistent AAGPBL players, starring on three championship teams for the Peaches, and by setting several league records as both a hitter and a pitcher.

During her first year in Rockford she set a league record of 31 assists from outfield, a mark she matched two years later.

1946

Then in the 1946 season, she led the league with nine triples while hitting a hefty .262 of batting average.

1948

Peaches manager Bill Allington moved Gacioch from the outfield to the pitcher's mound in 1948, and she responded with 14–5 mark.

1951

Her most productive season came in 1951, when she posted a 20–7 record to become the league's only 20-game winner.

1953

She also pitched a no-hitter in 1953, and while not pitching played in the outfield, she amassed averages of .294 in 1951, .285 in 1953, and a top-career .304 in 1954 at age of 38, when she was old enough to be the mother of some of her teammates.

1988

The AAGPBL folded in 1954, but there is now a permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum since November 5, 1988 that honors those who were part of this unforgettable experience.

Gacioch, along with the rest of the AAGPBL players, is now enshrined in the venerable building at Cooperstown, New York.

A native of Wheeling, West Virginia, Gacioch was orphaned at the age of 16.

She lied about her age, saying that she was 18 in order to take a job in a corrugating plant in her homeland.

She also joined the Little Cardinals, a semi-professional baseball team in town, being the only girl on the team.

What she considered her best pitch was the curveball which she had learned from her brother Steve, the oldest of four Gacioch children and the only boy.

1992

It was a neglected chapter of sports history, at least until 1992, when filmmaker Penny Marshall premiered her film A League of Their Own, which was a fictionalized account of activities in the AAGPBL.

Starring Geena Davis, Tom Hanks, Madonna, Lori Petty and Rosie O'Donnell, this film brought a rejuvenated interest to the extinct league.

In the film, O'Donnell played the character Rosie, as was nicknamed Gacioch by fellow players and fans.