Annabelle Thompson

Annebelle Thompson
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Pitcher
Born: (1924-11-22)November 22, 1924[1]
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Died: August 10, 1983(1983-08-10) (aged 58)
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
Teams
Career highlights and awards
  • Championship Team (1943)
  • Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame Honorary Induction (1998)
  • Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display
    at Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)

Annabelle Thompson, later McFarlane (November 22, 1924 – August 10, 1983), was a pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1943 season. She batted and threw right handed.[2]

Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Annie Thompson was one of the 68 players born in Canada to join the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in its twelve years history. She also became one of the sixty original players recruited by the league for its inaugural season.

Thompson was assigned to the Racine Belles, a team managed by former big leaguer Johnny Gottselig, as part of a pitching staff headed by Mary Nesbitt, Joanne Winter and Gloria Marks.[3]

In her only season she posted a team second-best 11 wins and ranked among the top 10 pitchers of the league, ending eighth in innings pitched (223) and ninth in earned run average (3.51), while tying for seventh for the most wins to help Racine win the championship.[4]

Thompson is part of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled in 1988 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. She also gained honorary induction into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998.[5] She died in Edmonton in 1983.[6]

Career statistics

Pitching

GP W L W-L% ERA IP H RA ER BB SO WHIP
32 11 15 .423 3.51 223 237 159 86 64 23 1.35

Batting

GP AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB SO BA
32 85 5 13 2 1 1 4 2 10 29 .153

Fielding

GP PO A E TC FA
32 11 78 10 99 .900

Sources

  1. ^ "Annabelle Thompson Delays Wedding Plans For Tryout With Chicago Softball League". Edmonton Journal. May 5, 1943. p. 8. Retrieved January 18, 2020.
  2. ^ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League website – Annebelle Thompson entry
  3. ^ 1943 Racine Belles
  4. ^ All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Record Book – W. C. Madden. Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2000. Format: Paperback, 294pp. Language: English. ISBN 0-7864-3747-2
  5. ^ Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame – 1998 Inductees Archived 2012-03-01 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "Announcements". Edmonton Journal. August 11, 1983. p. D2. Retrieved January 19, 2020.