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Rita Briggs was born on 27 March, 1929 in Ayer, Massachusetts, is an American baseball player (1929–1994). Discover Rita Briggs'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 65 years old?
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65 years old |
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Aries |
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27 March, 1929 |
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27 March |
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Ayer, Massachusetts |
| Date of death |
6 September, 1994 |
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Kalamazoo, Michigan |
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United States
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Rita Briggs Height, Weight & Measurements
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Rita Briggs Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Rita Briggs worth at the age of 65 years old? Rita Briggs’s income source is mostly from being a successful player. She is from United States. We have estimated Rita Briggs's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Rita Briggs ["Maude"] (March 27, 1929 – September 6, 1994) was an American female baseball catcher who played from 1947 through 1954 for seven different teams in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
Listed at 5ft 3in, 120 lb., Briggs batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
She was born in Ayer, Massachusetts.
An All-Star and member of two champion teams, Briggs was a solid backup catcher during the last years of existence of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
Known more for her glove work than her bat, she had a strong throwing arm and worked well with pitchers, which was important in a league that progressively expanded the length of the base paths and pitching distance and decreased the size of the ball until the final year of play.
A consistent and durable player, she recorded an all-time mark for most games played by a catcher in a single season.
Besides this, she provided versatility being able to play all outfield positions and first base while being a left-hitter.
Briggs started to play baseball at a very early age.
She attended Ayer High School, where she was the full-time catcher for the Ayer baseball team to become the first and only girl ballplayer in the school's history.
Briggs was discovered by an AAGPBL scout while she was playing at school and gave her a tryout.
Briggs did well, and was given a contract to play in the 1947 season.
This time the league opened its spring training in Havana, Cuba.
Briggs entered the league in 1947 with the Rockford Peaches, playing for them one and a half years before joining the Chicago Colleens (1948), South Bend Blue Sox (1949), Racine Belles (1949), Peoria Redwings (1949-'51), Battle Creek Belles (1952) and Fort Wayne Daisies (1953-'54).
She hit .215 in limited action during her rookie season.
In 1948 she batted .200 for Rockford and Chicago with a career-high 43 stolen bases and seven triples (third in the league).
She caught 128 games that year, to set an all-time record for most games played by a catcher in a single season.
Playing for three clubs in 1949, Briggs hit a combined .222 average with 22 steals before becoming a regular with Peoria for the next two years.
Her most productive season came in 1951, when she posted career-highs in average (.275), runs scored (57) and runs batted in (44).
She was named to the All-Star Team in 1952, and shared catching duties with Pepper Paire in 1954, during what turned out to be the All-American League's final season.
After that she helped the Daisies to win pennants in 1953 and 1954, but the team lost the final series in both years to the Grand Rapids Chicks and Kalamazoo Lassies, respectively.
In November 1988, the AAGPBL received their long overdue recognition when the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York dedicated a permanent display to the entire league rather than any individual player.
Rita Briggs spent the last years of her life in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where she died at the age of 65.
In 2009, Ayer High School dedicated their new softball park Rita Briggs Field, to her.
