Joanne Weaver

All-American Girls Professional Baseball League

Right field

Born: December 19, 1935
Metropolis, Illinois

Died: March 19, 2000 (aged 64)
Metropolis, Illinois

Batted: Right

Threw: Right

Teams

Fort Wayne Daisies (1951–1954)

Career highlights and awards

Player of the Year Award (1954)
Three-time All-Star Team (1952–1954)
Four playoff appearances (1951–1954)
Three batting championship titles (1952-'54)
All-time leader in batting average (.358)
All-time single-season records in
batting average (.429)
home runs (29)
total bases (187)
Single season leader in
batting average (1954)
home runs (1954)
hits (1954)
runs scored (1954)
stolen bases (1954)
Women in Baseball – AAGPBL Permanent Display
Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (1988)

Joanne Weaver [″Joltin' Jo″] (December 19, 1935 – March 19, 2000) was a right fielder who played from 1951 through 1954 in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), 142 lb., she batted and threw right-handed.

One of the most talented hitters in AAGPBL history, Joanne Weaver was the youngest of three sisters to play for the Fort Wayne Daisies in the final years of the league. Weaver often outdid her renowned sister, Betty Weaver Foss, as a power hitter, winning three consecutive batting titles and setting several all-time records. At this point, the Weaver-Foss duet led the AAGPBL in most major offensive categories between 1952 and 1954. A three-time All-Star, Joanne earned Player of the Year honors in 1954, when she hit a .429 average to set an AAGPBL single-season record. Besides this, her .429 mark was the highest Professional American Baseball batting average collected by any player in a single season in a minimum of 300 at-bat appearances.

A native of Metropolis, Illinois, Joanne Weaver was the daughter of minor league pitcher Lloyd Weaver and Elsie (Dummeier) Weaver. At the age of 11, she began playing softball with her sisters Betty and Jean. Their father tried to get them to play on a local boys' baseball team, with little success, until he managed to insert them into the Magnavox team of the Chicago industrial league, a successful fastpitch softball squad in which they finally started to play regularly. In 1950, Betty rejected a contract offer from the Chicago White Sox minor league system and opted to sign with the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Betty was allocated to the Fort Wayne Daisies and her sisters joined her on the team a year later.

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