Alta Weiss
| Alta Weiss | |
|---|---|
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| Pitcher | |
| Born: February 9, 1890 Berlin, Holmes County, Ohio, U.S. | |
| Died: February 12, 1964 (aged 74) Ragersville, Ohio, U.S. | |
Threw: right | |
| debut | |
| 1907, for the Vermilion Independents | |
| Last appearance | |
| 1922[1], for the Weiss All Stars | |
| Teams | |
Alta Weiss Hisrich (February 9, 1890 – February 12, 1964), born Alta Weiss, was an American minor league baseball pitcher from Ohio. She subsequently became a physician.
Early life, family and education
[edit]Born in 1890 in Berlin, Holmes County, Ohio, she was the daughter of Dr. George and Lucinda Zehnder Weiss.[1][2] When she was five years old, the family moved to Ragersville, Ohio.[1] Ragersville, in Tuscarawas County, is south-southeast of Sugarcreek, Ohio and east-northeast of Baltic.
After her baseball career, she graduated Starling Medical College with the class of 1914, the only female.[1][2][3]
Athletic career
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She drew large crowds to exhibition games at minor league and major league venues in the US state of Ohio and Kentucky. She was a semiprofessional female baseball player who in 1907 played on the Vermilion Independents, an otherwise all-male team.
Honors
[edit]A picture-story book for children Girl Wonder: A Baseball Story in Nine Innings, by Deborah Hopkinson, with illustrations by Terry Widener, was published in 2003 (ISBN 0-689-83300-8).[4] The book was awarded a Jane Addams Children's Book Award for illustration in 2004.[5]
On October 20, 2004, she was inducted into the Ragersville Hall of Fame.[1] Her uniform was sent to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York for exhibition in a Women's baseball exhibit that opened in 2005.[1]
Personal life
[edit]Weiss married John E. Hisrich in 1926; they separated in 1944.[6] She died in 1964 in Ragersville, Ohio, just three days after her 74th birthday.[7]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Eberle, Maxine Renner (October 20, 2004). "Ragersville Hall of Fame to induct Alta Weiss as first female semi-pro baseball player". Retrieved September 26, 2009.
- 1 2 "You Cant Play Ball In A Skirt: The Alta Weiss Story". Ragersville Historical Society. February 3, 2009. Retrieved September 26, 2009.
- ↑ Ward, Geoffrey C.; Burns, Ken (August 13, 1996). Baseball An Illustrated History. A.A. Knopf. ISBN 0-679-76541-7.
- ↑ Hopkinson, Deborah. "Girl Wonder". Archived from the original on April 18, 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2009.
- ↑ "Jane Addams Peace Association – Previous Winners of the Jane Addams Children's Book Awards Listed by Year". igc.org. Archived from the original on May 16, 2008. Retrieved September 27, 2009.
- ↑ "Files for Divorce". Coshocton Tribune. August 7, 1946. p. 2.
- ↑ "Alta W. Hisrich Dies at Dover". Coshocton Tribune. February 13, 1964. p. 13.
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- 1890 births
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- 20th-century American women medical doctors
- 20th-century American medical doctors
- Baseball pitchers
- American women baseball players
- People from Berlin, Holmes County, Ohio
- People from Huron County, Ohio
- Baseball players from Tuscarawas County, Ohio
- Medical doctors from Ohio
- Ohio State University College of Medicine alumni
- 20th-century American women scientists
- Semi-professional baseball players
- 20th-century American sportswomen