death_date death_place bats birth_place team image_size position birth_date image article_title name throws
24 june 2002 santa monica , california right toronto , ontario , canada all-american girls professional baseball league 175px shortstop / third base 1926 june schofield.jpg june schofield
 june schofield right
june schofield

june rose schofield -lsb- ″ moneybags ″ -rsb- -lrb- 1926 -- june 24 , 2002 -rrb- was a canadian infielder who played in the all-american girls professional baseball league .
she batted and threw right handed .
born in toronto , ontario , june schofield was one of the 57 players born in canada to join the all-american girls professional baseball league in its twelve years history .
a slick infielder with a quick bat , she played at shortstop and third base for three teams in parts of two seasons spanning 1948-1949 .
in her rookie year , schofield was one of the few players to have a significant production for the last-place springfield sallies during the 1948 season , leading them with 49 runs batted in while hitting two of the three home runs batted by the team .
she also posted a slash line -lrb- ba/obp/slg -rrb- of .236 / .308 / .318 and tied for fourth in the league for the most doubles -lrb- 12 -rrb- and triples -lrb- 9 -rrb- .
in addition , she stole 29 bases and formed a good double play combination with second sacker evelyn wawryshyn .
she divided her playing time with the peoria redwings and the muskegon lassies in the 1949 season , collecting a .228 average in 109 games and taking a postseason berth with muskegon .
she batted .182 -lrb- 4-for-22 -rrb- with two runs and one rbi in five playoff games .
in 1998 , schofield gained honorary induction into the canadian baseball hall of fame .
she is also part of the aagpbl permanent display at the baseball hall of fame and museum at cooperstown , new york , which was unveiled in 1988 to honor the entire all-american girls professional baseball league .
june schofield was a long resident of santa monica , california , where she died of congestive heart failure at the age of 76 .
