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naomi meier

naomi meier -lsb- ″ sally ″ -rsb- -lrb- november 17 , 1926 -- july 15 , 1989 -rrb- was an outfielder who played from through in the all-american girls professional baseball league .
listed at , 115 lb. , meier batted and threw right-handed .
she was born in fort wayne , indiana .
well-traveled naomi meier moved around for a while , as the aagpbl shifted players as needed to help teams stay afloat .
basically a line drive hitter and speedy base runner , she collected over 25 stolen bases in five of her eight seasons in the league .
an instinctive player with good hands and a strong throwing arm , she also was capable of playing well all three outfield positions .
but her best attribute may have been able to adapt and perform well for nine teams and thirteen different rosters in a span of eight years .
meier entered the league in 1946 with the rockford peaches , playing for them one and a half years before joining the fort wayne daisies -lrb- 1947 -rrb- .
then she found herself on the move again , this time to the peoria redwings -lrb- 1948 -rrb- and chicago colleens -lrb- 1948 -rrb- , and then the muskegon lassies -lrb- 1949 -rrb- , racine belles -lrb- 1949 -rrb- , kalamazoo lassies -lrb- 1950 -rrb- , followed by a new trip to fort wayne -lrb- 1950 -- 1952 -rrb- .
she later was part of the battle creek belles -lrb- 1952 -rrb- and played her last season for the muskegon belles -lrb- 1953 -rrb- .
in her rookie year , meier appeared in 103 games and hit a .249 batting average with a career-high 49 runs batted in while scoring 44 times .
her most productive season came in 1948 , when she posted career numbers in hits -lrb- 100 -rrb- , at-bats -lrb- 450 -rrb- , runs scored -lrb- 54 -rrb- , stolen bases -lrb- 55 -rrb- and games played -lrb- 127 -rrb- , adding a .222 average and 47 rbi .
she raised her average to a career-high .261 in 1950 , while collecting a second-best 34 stolen bases in 99 games .
in 1951 , meier suffered a season-ending compound fracture of her right ankle while sliding into second base .
used sparingly in 1952 , she hit .229 and stole 25 bases in 111 games during the 1953 season , her last in the league .
a .258 career hitter , she reached the postseason with the peaches -lrb- 1946 -rrb- , lassies -lrb- 1949 -rrb- and daisies , collecting a .208 average -lrb- 21-for-201 -rrb- with one double , seven runs , seven rbi and six stolen bases in 27 games .
in 690 games at outfield , she committed only 73 errors in 1226 chances for a .941 fielding average .
in 1988 she became part of `` women in baseball '' , a permanent display based at the baseball hall of fame and museum in cooperstown , new york , which was unveiled to honor the entire all-american girls professional baseball league .
it was not really a well known fact until filmmaker penny marshall premiered her 1992 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 many of the real aagpbl former players began to earn a rebirth of celebrity .
naomi meier died in fort wayne , indiana , at the age of 62 .
