death_date death_place bats birth_place team image_size position birth_date image article_title name throws
10 february 1984 chicago , illinois right chicago , illinois all-american girls professional baseball league 200px first base/chaperone 17 december 1918 johanna hageman.jpg johanna hageman
 johanna hageman right
johanna hageman

johanna hageman -lsb- hargraves -rsb- -lrb- december 17 , 1918 -- february 10 , 1984 -rrb- was a first base player and chaperone in all-american girls professional baseball league between the and seasons .
listed at , 155 lb. , she batted and threw right-handed .
born in chicago , illinois , johanna hageman was one of the sixty original members of the all-american girls professional baseball league .
the circuit operated from 1943 through 1954 and started with four teams : the racine belles and the kenosha comets , both from wisconsin ; the rockford peaches from illinois , and the south bend blue sox from indiana .
league play officially began on may 30 , 1943 and each team was made up of fifteen girls .
in the inaugural season , hageman was the best fielder at first base while playing for the blue sox .
she compiled a .983 average , after committing only 21 errors in 1,178 fielding chances .
she also hit .225 with a .319 on-base percentage and a .295 slugging in 108 games , ending third in the league for the most doubles -lrb- 10 -rrb- , sixth in runs batted in -lrb- 45 -rrb- and tenth in hits -lrb- 85 -rrb- .
in 1944 , hageman batted just .142 in a career-high 116 games , but kept her good defense at first with a .982 mark .
the next season she was traded to kenosha and slumped to .117 in 96 games , even though she posted a .983 fielding average .
she went on to play four more seasons with kenosha from 1946 through 1949 .
hageman died in chicago , illinois at the age of 65 .
four years after her death , she became part of `` women in baseball '' , a permanent display at the baseball hall of fame and museum at cooperstown , new york , which was unveiled in to honor the entire all-american girls professional baseball league .
