Leola Brody
American baseball player
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Leola Mae Hay (née Brody; May 30, 1922 – December 14, 1997) was an All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player. Brody batted and threw right handed. She was nicknamed Bubbles.[1][2]
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| Born: May 30, 1922 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | |
| Died: December 14, 1997 (aged 75) Long Grove, Illinois, U.S. | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
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Born in Chicago, Illinois, Brody joined the league in its inaugural season of 1943. Brody was assigned to the Racine Belles, even though she did not appear in a game for the team. After that, she played fastpitch softball for the Bloomer Girls club based in Chicago.[1]
Following her playing retirement, Brody taught bowling and bowled in men's leagues. Throughout the 1970s, she also worked as a physical therapist at a hospital in Wetumpka, Alabama.[1]
The AAGPBL folded in 1954, but there is a permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York, since November 5, 1988, that honors the entire league rather than any individual figure.[3]
Brody died in 1997 in Long Grove, Illinois, at the age of 75.[1]