finalyear death_date death_place bats birth_place debutyear team image_size position birth_date image article_title name throws
1953 18 january 2008 metropolis , illinois right metropolis , illinois 1951 all-american girls professional baseball league 220px pitcher / third base 28 august 1933 jean weaver.jpg jean weaver
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jean weaver

jean weaver -lrb- august 28 , 1933 -- january 18 , 2008 -rrb- was a utility player who played from through in the all-american girls professional baseball league .
listed at 5 ' 8 '' , 138 lb. , weaver batted and threw right-handed .
she was born in metropolis , illinois .
her sisters betty and joanne also played in the league .
jean was one of the famous weaver sisters of the fort wayne daisies during the last years of the all-american girls professional baseball league .
her older sister betty won the batting title in both 1950 and 1951 , and earned the most valuable player award in 1952 .
younger sister joanne took three consecutive batting titles from 1952 to 1954 , the last with a season-record .429 average which gave her mvp honors .
jean was a dependable utility with good instincts for the game .
she played three years for the daisies , appearing as a backup at third base and in outfield and occasionally coming out for pitching .
her most productive season came in 1953 , when she posted a 7 -- 1 record in 20 games and hit a solid .313 average .
the daisies reached the playoffs in the years in which she played for them , but were beaten in the last round .
after the league disbanded in 1954 , jean weaver lived in chicago , illinois , for over forty years .
in november 1988 , the three sisters received 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 .
in 1995 jean moved back to her hometown of metropolis , illinois , to be with her parents , former inor league ballplayer lloyd weaver and elsie -lrb- dummeier -rrb- weaver .
joanne returned in 1990 , while betty came back in 1994 .
the three sisters were able to see each other every day .
betty died in 1998 , following complications related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -lrb- lou gehrig 's disease -rrb- , and joanne died in 2000 of the same disease that claimed her sister .
eight years later , jean died in her hometown at the age of 74 .
