Betty Carveth

Betty Carveth [Dunn] is a former Canadian pitcher who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1945 season. She batted and threw right handed.^[1]

Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Betty Carveth was one of the 57 players born in Canada to join the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in its twelve years history.

In her only season Carveth posted a combined 4-11 record and a 2.28 earned run average in 21 games for the Rockford Peaches (1945) and the Fort Wayne Daisies. During the best-of-five playoff series, she lost an 11-inning pitching duel with Racine Belles' Doris Barr.^[2]

In 1998, she garnered honorary induction in the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. She also 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.^[3]

Betty Carveth Dunn still lives in Edmonton and has continued to be involved by awarding an annual $2000 scholarship which is named in her honour and shared with Millie Warwick McAuley, other Canadian who played in the AAGPBL. The scholarship is awarded in Alberta to a young female baseball player who combines excellence on the diamond, in the classroom and in the community. Betty and Millie also were Special Ambassadors during the first-ever World Cup of Women's Baseball held at Edmonton in 2004.^[4][5][6]

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